Study finds no correlation between legalized assisted suicide and patients’ desire to die
Michael De Dora
Posted on October 17, 2012
One of the arguments used by those who oppose physician-assisted suicide is that legalizing the procedure would result in terminally ill patients rushing to end their lives. Common sense tells us this isn’t likely: very few people willingly run to their deathbeds. Of course, common sense isn’t always correct or reliable. That’s why we have science. Yet, in this case, it appears science has confirmed what many people already think is true: a new study published in Frontiers in Psychology for Clinical Settings, found that “a liberal legal setting does not necessarily promote the wish for assisted suicide.” The results of a series of interviews with the 33 patients … suffering from the motor neurone disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) … revealed that 94 percent did not have any…