95.999 Euthanasia: SUNSET HOD 2013
[1] Note by General Counsel – Article 29C of the Public Health Law, which became law on July 27, 1990, establishes a procedure for individuals to appoint health care agents to make health care decisions in the event the individual loses capacity to make such decisions. [2] At this point, this remains MSSNY position and the policy in whole states: 95.989 Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Patients, with terminal illness, uncommonly approach their physicians for assistance in dying including assisted suicide and euthanasia. Their motivations are most often concerns of loss of autonomy, concerns of loss of dignity, and physical symptoms which are refractory and distressing. Despite shifts in favor of physician assisted suicide as evidenced by its legality in an increasing number of states, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have not been part of the normative practice of modern medicine. Compelling arguments have not been made for medicine to change its footing and to incorporate the active shortening of life into the norms of medical practice. Although relief of suffering has always been a 4 fundamental duty in medical practice, relief of suffering through shortening of life has not. Moreover, the social and societal implications of such a fundamental change cann
