Catherine Bennett suggests that objections to legalising assisted suicide are based on religious grounds (’Let this woman die as she chooses, not in a death plant’, Comment, last week). Yet 94 per cent of specialist palliative care physicians oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide. We wish to protect and conserve the dignity of all dying patients, who may feel depressed, a burden to others or fear future pain. Research shows that if patients approaching death are treated as if they no longer matter, they will act and believe that life is not worth living.
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