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Physician-Assisted Suicide Kathleen M. Foley, author of Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide, believes doctors should develop treatments for the physical and psychological problems of dying patients rather than helping them commit suicide. Available data suggests most physicians do not receive training in the care of dying patients. Dying patients experience physical symptoms such as pain, psychological problems such as anxiety and depression and existential distress (described as the experience of life …

…nonetheless, I believe in the most tragic cases euthanasia should be permissible. Bibliography References 1. Foley KM. Competent Care for the Dying Istead of Physician-Assisted Suicide. The New England Journal of Medicine. 1997; v336: 54-57. 2 . Lane B. Euthanasia: the Debate Continues. 26 June 1996. http://www.mala.bc.ca./www/ipp/ethanas.htm (25 February 1997). 3-6. Rachels J. Euthanasia. http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/...intro/part3/Rachels.txt (9 March 1997). 7. Hannigan, J. (1986). As I Have Loved You. New York: Paulist Press.