{"id":4928,"date":"2020-05-07T22:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.tvndy.ca\/faq\/we-know-assisted-suicide-already-happens-if-we-dont-regulate-it-wont-we-end-up-with-a-macabre-specialty-of-assisted-suicides-with-no-safeguards-at-all\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:21:37","slug":"we-know-assisted-suicide-already-happens-if-we-dont-regulate-it-wont-we-end-up-with-a-macabre-specialty-of-assisted-suicides-with-no-safeguards-at-all","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/faq\/we-know-assisted-suicide-already-happens-if-we-dont-regulate-it-wont-we-end-up-with-a-macabre-specialty-of-assisted-suicides-with-no-safeguards-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"7. We know assisted suicide already happens. If we don\u2019t regulate it, won\u2019t we end up with a \u201cmacabre specialty\u201d of assisted suicides with no safeguards at all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regulations often don\u2019t make a difference in assisted suicide practices.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A majority of deaths in Oregon are \u201cguided\u201d by people from Compassion &amp; Choices. This organization bases their physician referrals\u00a0on the doctors\u2019 willingness to prescribe lethal drugs, rather than their relationship with a patient or\u00a0expertise.\u00a0See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pccef.org\/resources\/documents\/ConcentrationofOregonsAssistedSuicideDeaths3182015revision.pdf\">Dr. Kenneth Stevens\u2019 2015 report<\/a>, provided by the Physicians for Compassionate Care Educational Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>The Final Exit Network has faced criminal charges in situations where \u201cexit guides\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riverfronttimes.com\/stlouis\/death-watch-final-exits-clandestine-ways-have-put-the-assisted-suicide-network-on-life-support\/Content?oid=2484133\">held people\u2019s hands down\u00a0<\/a>to prevent them from tearing the plastic bag off of their head to stop their \u201cassisted suicides.\u201d\u00a0[Source: Riverfront Times of St. Louis]<\/li>\n<li>Clients of the infamous\u00a0Dignitas clinic in Switzerland do not have to be residents of that country. People from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/08\/going-to-switzerland-is-a-euphemism-for-assisted-suicide\/379182\/\">France<\/a>\u00a0[source: the Atlantic],\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2015\/aug\/15\/assisted-dying-britons-dignitas-rises-campaigners-change-law\">the United Kingdom and Germany<\/a>\u00a0[source: the Guardian]\u00a0 have traveled to Switzerland seeking assisted suicide.\u00a0In 2012, the Dutch government\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/01\/mobile-euthanasia-netherlands_n_1313419.html\">launched mobile euthanasia units<\/a>\u00a0to make house calls [source: Huffington Post]. \u00a0Whether or not you can get home care to make your life easier, you can certainly get assistance to die.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n   ","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","faq_groups":[],"class_list":["post-4928","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/4928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_groups?post=4928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}