Ethics and Society: Physician Assisted Suicide and White Ethnocentrism

Discourse around physician assisted suicide (PAS) has centered on individual choice including the ethics of individual rights and prerogatives of both patients and physicians. This discourse has been so highly charged that even terms to describe this activity, e.g. aid in dying, physician assisted dying, among others, has been a source of heated debate. We use the term assisted suicide, with dispassionate intent, to describe the medically supported and self-directed ending of one's life, as this term, from the Latin, sui (self) and cide (killing), is literal.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research