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Letters |6 August 2002

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Antoine de Torrenté, MD

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TO THE EDITOR:
I read with extreme interest the ACP–ASIM position paper on the very difficult question of physician-assisted suicide (1). In Switzerland, which has a population of 7 million people, physician-assisted suicide is not legal but is not prosecuted by law if very strict conditions have been fulfilled. The number of assisted deaths per year is very small, and although the ACP–ASIM position paper implies that physician-assisted suicide might lead to a tendency toward active euthanasia (the so-called slippery slope), no such tendency is developing (2). Of note, active euthanasia is illegal in Switzerland.
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de Torrenté A. Physician-Assisted Suicide. Ann Intern Med. 2002;137:216. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-137-3-200208060-00017

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2002;137(3):216.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-137-3-200208060-00017

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