Abstract
Most codes of ethics states that physician-assisted suicide is prohibited, mainly because it is "fundamentally incompatible with the physician's role as healer". It would also be difficult to control, and would pose serious societal risks. Physician-assisted suicide is contrary to the Hippocratic Oath, when it states that no doctors will give deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor will suggest any such counsel. The push towards a change of legislation, in a permissive sense, and some acquittal judgments have led the top of professional orders to decide that, under certain conditions, disciplinary sanctions should not be imposed on doctors who facilitate a patient's death (6th February 2020). This scenario poses a challenge to the medical profession. The request for death must be evaluated in the framework of a "shared planning of care".
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