Ravi Philemon, TOC NOW!, Top Story - March 21, 2010 - 1,113 views - 24 Comments
Gerard Ee – right in slamming physician assisted suicide
By Ravi Philemon
In April 2009, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan categorically stated that, “euthanasia, which means helping the patient to commit suicide, is not what Ministry of Health (MOH) is promoting” and that MOH is actually “promoting palliative care for the terminally ill so that they, and their family members, will be able to cope with terminal illness with the least pain and being cared for in the most appropriate setting, which usually means the home they live in.”
When the Health Minister has categorically stated his position that he will not promote euthanasia, Ms Toh Puay San, a deputy public prosecutor (writing in her personal capacity), and National University of Singapore law don Stanley Yeo, seem to have taken the back door approach to push for the issue of dying with aid, with their controversial article in the latest issue of the Singapore Academy of Law Journal.
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