Yet another reason Life Legal is challenging California’s assisted suicide law.
Instead of helping only terminally ill patients in physical pain, assisted suicide laws are being used by patients in psychological distress.
From Kaiser Health News:
“It’s a bait and switch,” said Dr. Ira Byock, executive director and chief medical officer for the Institute for Human Caring of Providence Health and Services, based in Torrance, Calif. “We’re actually helping people hasten their deaths because of existential suffering. That’s chilling to me.”
