Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel - Rahm's brother comes under fire for ethics on view of people over 75, no value

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19. Well, no idea about OP's view, but Emanuel thinks it should be illegal

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and he has written that U.S. policy should be to keep it illegal.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/whose-right-to-die/304641/?single_page=true

The proper policy, in my view, should be to affirm the status of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as illegal. In so doing we would affirm that as a society we condemn ending a patient's life and do not consider that to have one's life ended by a doctor is a right.

He does note there should be exception to that in extreme cases.

This is from an older article, which he wrote in disagreement with the 2nd and 9th Circuit Court decisions "striking down state laws in New York and Washington that forbid physician-assisted suicide."

Glad I live in Washington State, where after the 9th's decision we voted for a Death with Dignity law. Also glad his influence didn't extend to affecting that, though I am troubled by the influence he does have.