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Dr. R. Sean Morrison: “Physician-Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill”

  • Los Angeles Daily News
  • (January 23, 2015)

The California Legislature is again weighing whether to legalize physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Recent polling shows that 70 percent of those surveyed now approving elective euthanasia. R. Sean Morrison, MD, co-director of the Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center, as well as director of the National Palliative Care Research Center, and professor of geriatrics and medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, says the discussion should be the provision of adequate and humane care. “The focus should be on ensuring that people with serious illness and those at the end of life get the best quality palliative care.” Learn more