Rodney Syme
Ethicist, physician, and writer Eric Cassell has remarked that it is troubling that patients and laypersons consider the relief of suffering to be one of the primary ends of medicine, yet the medical profession neglects it. It is even more disturbing given that we are on a daily basis confronted with images of war, pain, and displacement. Rodney Syme’s book about ...
Published in
April 2017, no. 390
Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'A Good Death: An argument for voluntary euthanasia' by Rodney Syme
Jay Daniel Thompson
Monday, 01 September 2008
In A Good Death, Rodney Syme outlines his case for the legalisation of euthanasia. Drawing on his experience working with seriously ill patients over several decades, Syme (a medical practitioner) advances the controversial argument that ‘physician-assisted death’ is a humane response to ‘intolerable and otherwise unrelievable suffering’.
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Published in
September 2008, no. 304