Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: “Comfort care” needs robust moral framework

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Gregory Gardner, assistant general practitioner (g.gardner@euphony.net)

Swanpool Medical Centre, Tipton DY4 0UB

EDITOR—The belief of Hurst and Mauron that physician assisted suicide is not entirely contained within the framework of medicine is correct.1 Physician assisted suicide entails a philosophical value judgment that an individual life is no longer worthy to be lived. The authors do not give us any basis for making these value judgments, but modern bioethics theory creates hierarchies of human worth which are then used to justify medical discrimination.2

The authors cite …