• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Do you view medically assisted suicide as cruel?

    After a doctor’s assessment? No. He did not undergo such an assessment.

    There’s a reason why medical professionals do not assist with executions.

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      9 months ago

      There’s a reason why medical professionals do not assist with executions.

      I hate to break it to you, but the article quite literally says that “medical team members” were responsible for assisting in getting the IV line into Creech.

      Harvard also says that physicians do assist (SOURCE)

      And even this cardiologist says it’s better that they do than not, even though he is against capital punishment.

      It’s certainly a debated topic in the realm of ethics, no doubt, but it still happens.

      But getting back to my question:

      If medically assisted suicide is not cruel, and Creech requested that he wanted to die via lethal injection (medically assisted suicide, since it was at his request), where do we have a problem?