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- PAS and PAD will forever transform the role of physician from
one who preserves life to one who takes life. This will lead to
a speedy deterioration of the physician-patient relationship,
which will adversely affect the entire health care delivery system.
- PAS and PAD would leave society's most vulnerable poor, sick,
elderly and disabled populations subject to abuse and coercion
- no matter what the proposed safeguards. The slippery slope to
involuntary PAD would become a reality, just as it has in the
Netherlands.
- Any so-called right to die would inevitably lead to a duty to
die, with elderly patients feeling the subtle (and, perhaps, not
so subtle) obligation to end their lives prematurely so as not
to be a burden to their families and to society.
- PAS and PAD would immeasurably diminish the sanctity and value
of all human life.
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