Text of "Dignified End of Life Choices" can be found here.
TROUBLED with the lack of attention to bioethics in “Dignified End of Life Choices”,
CONCERNED that “Dignified End of Life Choices” does not employ devices to ensure that requests for assisted suicide are genuinely voluntary, operating entirely under an honor system subject to the whims of corruption,
FURTHER CONCERNED that “Dignified End of Life Choices” does not employ proper consideration of vulnerable populations, ensuring that requests for assisted suicide are genuine and not the result of clinical depression, a treatable mental disorder, or other treatable mental disorders and illnesses,
APPALLED that patients requesting assisted suicide are not required to undergo psychiatric or psychological evaluations, unless they repeatedly submit and rescind assisted suicide requests, but are merely required to attain two witnesses who testify towards their mental competency, even if they are not psychiatric professionals able to give an expert evaluation,
FURTHER APPALLED that attending physicians and consulting physicians are not subject to evaluations of ethical conduct, unless nations enact independent legislation, which is an irresponsible oversight of bioethical protocols,
The World Assembly repeals “Dignified End of Life Choices”.
[float=left]Dr. Bradford William Castro
Ambassador-at-Large,
Permanent Chief of Mission for World Assembly affairs,
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