DENVER—The debate over doctor-assisted suicide is heating up following the death of Dr. Jack Kevorkian , assisted suicide’s most famous advocate.
According to the Denver Post, a group called Compassion & Choices, a choice-in-dying organization, says it will ask Colorado lawmakers next legislative session to require physicians in Colorado to inform dying patients of their legal end-of-life options, but it stops short of physician-assisted suicide.
Colorado is one of 36 states that have criminalized assisted suicide.
The Conference of Catholic Bishops argues that physician-assisted suicide doesn’t promote compassion because its focus isn’t on eliminating suffering, it’s on eliminating the patient.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
