Against Physician Assisted Suicide Quotes

“To withdraw life-prolonging treatments when these are no longer of benefit to the patient is to recognise the limits of a doctor's power, allowing the dying person to die as a consequence of their underlying disease. This is clinically, ethically and legally different from deliberately ending life as in euthanasia or PAS."
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― David Jeffrey, Against Physician Assisted Suicide: A Palliative Care Perspective

“It is significant that the major world religions having studied the problem of unrelieved suffering for over 2000 years, have independently concluded that there is no justification for euthanasia or PAS.
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― David Jeffrey, Against Physician Assisted Suicide: A Palliative Care Perspective

“It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to protect them from harm.”
― David Jeffrey, Against Physician Assisted Suicide: A Palliative Care Perspective