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Basic Facts on Assisted-Suicide
by Brian Johnston

Polls indicate that many Americans initially support the idea of physician-assisted suicide, but that support rapidly drops with the amount of accurate information given. ⁱ

Killing - Contrary to popular misconceptions, the debate about assisted suicide is not about "helping people die a natural death." Many are confused about end-of-life issues, and are unaware of excellent programs and resources like in-home hospice care. As commonly practiced, assisted suicide is killing an individual who is not in immediate danger of death.

Pain - Effective pain management is available for even the most painful of illnesses and cancers. Unfortunately, many doctors have not yet had adequate training in pain control.ⁱⁱ   If the attending physician is not properly treating the pain, don’t kill the patient - get another doctor.

Suicide is infectious. Suicide clusters, copy-cats, and mass suicides all indicate that it is an act that is dangerously "contagious." If society approves of suicide as an appropriate solution to one’s problems, the emotionally vulnerable, who often do not show signs of their internal struggles, may well be prompted to an irrevocable decision. This is a particular danger for the disabled, the aged, the infirm, and the medically dependent.^vi

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Excerpted from Death As A Salesman; What's Wrong With Assisted Suicide, By Brian P. Johnston.  New Regency Publishing. 1997.  
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ⁱ Washington Post, 4/4/96, p.A18
ⁱⁱ Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, statement 3/2/94
ⁱⁱⁱ Widely cited in wire stories and the popular press; e.g.. New York Times, 1010/91, p.A1.
^iv Hemlock Quarterly, 10/84.
^v Frontline, The Kervorkian Chronicles, PBS, August 10, 1995.
^vi Rosenthal, Howard. Not With My Life You Don't: Preventing your Suicide and That of Others, Accelerated Development Publishers, Muncie, IN 1988. pg.97.