According to CARE (Cooperative for American’s Remittances to Europe), PAS is morally, legally and medically unacceptable. Morally, as a society we have a moral obligation and social responsibility to care for those who are elderly, dying or disabled. The legalization of PAS would result in pressure, and/or perceived for the vulnerable to request PAS. Legally, the legalization of PAS would fundamentally change the basis on which the criminal law is founded namely for …showed first 75 words of 476 total…

…showed last 75 words of 476 total…doctor’s devotion to the patients best interests will be hard to sustain once the doctor can legally prescribe death. Even conscientious physicians will have trouble caring wholeheartedly for patients once death becomes a “therapeutic option.” The prohibition against killing patients, medicines first principle of ethical self- restraint recognizes that no physician devotes to the benefit of the sick can serve the patient by making him dead. The physician-assisted suicide is a deadly self- contradiction.