Euthanasia Assisted Suicide

Allison Ducluzeau, diagnosed with stage 4 peritoneal carcinomatosis in Canada, was denied surgery by the British Columbia Cancer Agency and was instead suggested to consider assisted dying. She later received treatment in Maryland at Mercy Medical Center, where she was successfully treated and became cancer-free, highlighting differences in care between socialized medicine and the U.S.

Dr. Mark Komrad The following comments were provided by Dr. Mark Komrad, M.D., DFAPA, ACP, Faculty of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Tulane, and LSU You may have heard that France’s National Assembly overrode their Senate’s objection to a proposed euthanasia law , and legalized it. A review by the French constitutional court has since upheld it, with a some of important clarifications, a couple of which are disturbing: Like Canada and Benelux countries, the law allows both US style assisted suicide (oral prescription) AND euthanasia (IV lethal injection by doctor). [In all