Physician-Assisted Suicide

The American Medical Association defines physician-suicide as occurring when “a physician facilitates a patient’s death by providing the necessary means and/or information to enable the patient to perform the life-ending act.”[1] For example,

the physician provides sleeping pills and information about the lethal dose, while aware that the patient may commit suicide. [2]

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[1]  AMA Code of Medical Ethics, Opinion 5.7. 
[2]  Id.