STATEMENTS BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION Medical Associations Assisted Suicide Is the Wrong Prescription by Joseph E. Marine, MD (2024) American Medical Association Maintains Opposition To Assisted Suicide (2023) American Medical Association Retains Policy against Assisted Suicide (2023) Controlling Timing And Manner Of Death Is Outside Scope Of Medical Practice By Dr. Michael T. Vest (2023) Opinion: "We Need a Proposal For Real End-of-life Care" by Dr. Andre N. Sofair (2023) Is There A Doctor In The House? Probably Not. (2023) We Need an Ethical Definition of Death By Heidi Klessig, M.D. (2022) Respect For Human Life: Life, Death, and Medical Meaning (2022) "Offering Euthanasia To A Suicidal Person Leads To Premature Deaths" by Dr. Ramona Coelho (2022) "Care for People with Cognitive Impairment: Don't Euthanize Them" by Dr. Paul Saba (2022) "What Might Have Been: Terri Schiavo, Charlie Gard" by Dr. David Stolinsky (2022) "Why Euthanasia For Children 'Mature Minors' Is Wrong" by Dr Ramona Coelho (2022) Dr Josephine Glaser: Response to George Will's Support for Assisted Suicide (2022) Profound Social Change With Euthanasia For Mental Illness (2022) Dr Paul Saba: The Mentally Ill Should Not Be Euthanized (2021) ACPeds Denounces Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in Minors (2021) WMA Declaration on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (2019) World Medical Association Re-affirms Its Opposition To Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide (2019) Physician-Assisted Suicide: There Are No Best Practices by Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks, MD, MRCPsych (2019) AMA Votes to Retain Longstanding Opposition to Assisted Suicide (2019) Your Doctor: Professional, Business Person, or Agent of the State? By David Stolinsky, MD (2019) There Is No Unconditional Right To Die by Joseph F. Andrews Jr., MD (2019) American Medical Association Continues To Debate Assisted Suicide (2018) American Medical Association Ethics Committee Maintains Opposition To Physician-Assisted Suicide (2018) A Tale of Three Patients: Preventive Care or Preventing Care? by Dr. David C. Stolinsky (2018) As I See It: The AMA Grapples With Issue Of Physician Assisted Suicide Thomas E. Sullivan, M.D. (2018) AMA Still Says No to Assisted Suicide (2018) African Regional Meeting of the World Medical Association (2018) World Medical Association Reiterates Strong Opposition To Physician Assisted Suicide And To Australian Bill (2017) Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: Historical Perspective of Unconscionable Acts By Felipe E Vizcarrondo M.D. (2017) Medical Society Of Delaware Re-affirms Its Opposition To Assisted Suicide (2017) Video: Dr. Michael J. Brescia, co-inventor of the Brescia-Cimino fistula, on Doctor-Assisted Suicide (2016) Doctor-Assisted Suicide? Neutrality Is Not An Option By Frederick J. White, M.D. (2016) Care Not Killing Disappointed At "Divisive" BMA Vote, Which Shows Divide Between Doctors On Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia (2021) British Doctors Overwhelmingly Vote Against Dropping Opposition to Assisted Suicide (2016) Massachusetts Physicians Speak Out Against Assisted Suicide Measure (2015) British Medical Association Reaffirms Its Opposition to Assisted Suicide (2014) Canadian Medical Association Votes Against Becoming Pro-Euthanasia (2013) Massachusetts Medical Society Reaffirms Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide (2012) National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (2012) Nothing Dignified About Suicide, Massachusetts Doctor Says (2012) Connecticut State Medical Society (2015) Center for Hospice Care Southeast Connecticut (2015) British Medical Association Reaffirms Opposition To Assisted Suicide (2009) British Medical Association (BMA) American Medical Association (AMA) Official Website American Medical Association (AMA) Canadian Medical Association (CMA) German Medical Association Opposes Euthanasia (2014) New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) (2018) World Medical Association The American Medical Directors Association Royal College of Physicians UK Doctors Challenge Royal College Of Physicians’ Controversial Decision To Go Neutral On Assisted Suicide (2019) Royal College of Nursing American Nurses Association (ANA) Christian Medical & Dental Society British Geriatrics Society American Medical Association Delegates Vote on Assisted Suicide The National Spinal Cord Injury Association ". . . new medical journals are now exclusively dedicated to pain management and palliative care. When pain becomes an argument for ending life, it is the pain that must be killed, not the patient." ... by Dr. Sherif Emil, Director Pediatric General Surgery, Montreal Children's Hospital. Doctors will tend to refer patients to doctors similar to themselves, who will likely deliver the same diagnosis because they have similar perspectives . . . Yale University Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology Andre Sofair, MD.(Click here for article) "Physician-assisted suicide is the antithesis of being a physician." . . . Dr. Warren Fong, president of the Medical Oncology Association of Southern California. (Click here for reference)   Noted Physicians                    Click image for short video clip "Euthanasia and Assisted Dying: The Illusion of Autonomy" article in the British Medical Journal by Dr. Ole Hartling (2021) "New Assisted Dying Law Threatens Vulnerable Citizens" by K. Sonu Gaind, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. (2021) Bill's Death Is Another Chance To Improve The Lives Of Those Suffering by Andre N. Sofair, MD and Barry J. Wu, MD (2021) "Your New Law Will Provide, Not Prevent, Suicide for Some Psychiatric Patients" by Mark S. Komrad, MD (2021) Don't Follow Canada... Don't Kill Your Disabled And Depressed Citizens - Dr Paul Saba Radiation Oncologist Kenneth R. Stevens, Jr., M.D. Warns Connecticut Legislators on Dangers of Assisted Suicide (2021) Op-Ed: Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying = Torturous Death by Joel Zivot, MD (2021) MAiD (Euthanasia) for Mental Illness: Myths and Facts by John Maher MD FRCPC(2021) Doctors Bouchard, Coelho and Herx: Physicians Should Not Be Forced To Make Assisted-death Referrals (2021) Dr Ramona Coelho: Why I Oppose Euthanasia (MAiD) (2020) Dr Leonie Herx: Without My Conscience Rights, I Cannot Be A Good Physician For My Patients (2020) Neurologist Lauren Mai: I Already See The MAiD Law Being Broken And A Clear Lack Of Safeguards (2020) Take the Hippocratic Oath Too Seriously? by Dr. David C. Stolinsky (2019) Assisted Suicide Betrays Trust, Human Dignity (2019) Testimony Against the Proposed Connecticut Assisted Suicide Law by Frank J. Mongillo, III, MD (2019) Dr. Will Johnston: It Has Become Too Easy To End Patients' Lives (2019) Two Misleading Myths Regarding Medical Aid in Dying (2018) Physician-Assisted Suicide Isn't Right For Doctors. Don't Change The Ama's Position by Dr. Joseph E. Marine (2018) Physician-Assisted Suicide Won't Atone for Medicine's "Original Sin" by palliative care physician Ira Byock, M.D. (2018) Should Your Doctor Cast Off the Cloak of Conscience? by Dr. David C. Stolinsky (2017) Dr. Joseph Andrews speaks at Second Thoughts-CT Press Conference Against HB 5326 The Dangerously Contagious Effect of Assisted-Suicide Laws by Associate Professor of Psychiatry Aaron Kheriaty (2015) A Doctor's View on Assisted Suicide (2015) Death With Dignity Is Often Coerced By Those With Financial Interests by neurologist Mitchell T. Wallin (2015) Physician-Assisted Suicide Wrong, Dangerous for Society by cardiologist Andrew D. Sumner (2015) Physician-Assisted Suicide Is a Bad Idea by James A. Avery, M.D. (2015) Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is Unethical and Dangerous by palliative-care physician, Dr. Ira Byock (2014) Your Doctor: Professional, Business Person, or Agent of the State? by David C. Stolinsky, M.D. (2014) Dr. Harvey Schipper: With Assisted Suicide, Context Is Everything (2014) Dr. Kerry Pound: Massachusetts and Assisted Suicide (2012) Dr. C. Everett Koop on Baby Doe and Euthanasia "There's Another Way to Die with Dignity" by Michele Ferguson, M.D., is medical director of HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield Counties (2007) Why Oregon is Alone (2006) Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop on Euthanasia "Assisted Suicide of the Medical Profession" by David C. Stolinsky, M.D. (2006) "Handiphobia" Leading Cause of Euthanasia by Neonatologist Carlo Bellieni Dr. Bellieni's paper "Withholding and Withdrawing Neonatal Therapy: An Alternative Glance" Statement of Prof. Carlos Gomez, M.D. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Family Practice Perspective (1997) Dr. John K. Monro on Euthanasia (2005) Vermont Heathcare Professionals Speak (PDF file) "Good palliative and terminal care does not require assisted dying." ... Dr Maureen Baker, chairman of the Royal College of GPs (Click here) " . . . we refer to the leading medical journal in the United States, the New England Journal of Medicine. There we find multiple articles advocating nationalized health care, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. But we find no articles, and virtually no letters to the editor, on the other side. Science requires open discussion of opposing views. This isn't science it's political advocacy." ... by David C. Stolinsky, MD (Click here for article) "It is misleading to refer to euthanasia as medical or physician aid in dying once again, all the physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, music therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, spiritual care counsellors, pharmacists, dietitians, volunteers and coordinators who work with the dying patient offer aid in dying." ... by Dr. Manuel Borod, Director, McGill University Health Care Palliative Care Unit. "Doctor-Assisted Suicide Isn't Liberalism. It’s Nihilism." ... palliative care physician Ira Byock, MD.(Click here for article)

The US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached by calling 800-273-8255. For those who don't want to speak to a counselor, there's also a national Crisis Text Line available 24/7 by texting "home" to 741741.