Excerpt from a CNN Crossfire segment (live from Washington) discussing a recent Supreme Court decision on assisted suicide. Speakers debate whether the Court effectively 'licensed doctors' to assist suicide, and frame the ruling as a wake-up call for the medical profession to better address pain and suffering rather than advocating suicide.
Live from Washington. Crossfire. There's no doubt.
That many people are dying or in despair. They're down. There's periods of depression. You've seen it. You're very familiar with it. You've written about it.
What I want to.
Know is how in heaven's name, you.
Thought the Supreme.
Court was going to license doctors, because of this bad situation, to.
Go in and kill people. Well, I understand, and I'm certainly not surprised by.
Today'S decision.
I didn't really expect them to go the other way. One of the things that I think this is, no matter which way we go, is a wake up call to the medical profession to let people know we are not dying. Well, in America, we are not addressing people's pain and addressing their suffering. And by no means in a civilized society should we advocate suicide.
