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Euthanasia Doesn’t Cause Disproportionate Number of Deaths: Study
The “vulnerable groups” included elderly people, poor, women, minorities, uninsured, minors, chronically ill, less educated or psychiatric patients and AIDS patients. Out of these vulnerable groups, only AIDS patients used doctor-assisted suicide at elevated rates.
Led by bioethicist Margaret Battin, a University of Utah distinguished professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of internal medicine, the research deals with the so-called “slippery slope” argument that has been made by critics of doctor-assisted suicide and has raised concern even among proponents.
The argument is that by making it legal for medical doctors to help certain patients end their lives, vulnerable people will die in disproportionately large numbers.
“Fears about the impact on vulnerable people have dominated debate about physician-assisted suicide. We find no evidence to support those fears where this practice already is legal,” Battin said.
The study will be published in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics.
The findings of the research came through when Battin and her colleagues looked at the places where physician-assisted suicide is legal.
The researchers analysed data on assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia in the Netherlands by taking data from four government studies and several smaller ones. They analysed Oregon Department of Human Services annual reports, and surveys of physicians and hospice professionals.
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