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Euthanizing the Mentally Ill

Euthanizing the Mentally Ill
A euthanasia kit available in the 250 Belgian Multipharma's chemist shops for the general practitioners who want to practice euthanasia at the patients' homes, in Brussels on April 18, 2005. Etienne Ansotte/AFP via Getty Images
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Should psychiatrists and other doctors assist the suicides of mentally ill patients? Not that long ago, the answer to that question would have been an unequivocal no.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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