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Assisted dying: it’s time to poll UK doctors

BMJ 2018; 360 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k593 (Published 08 February 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;360:k593

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Re: Assisted dying: it’s time to poll UK doctors

I do not agree. Medicine of those days is powerful, so doctors could help , and reduce the pain, treat. I find this is more a financial issue, but there is no price for life. Passion of the doctor's mission is life , not death. Finances today, is a value, but I find it is wrong. Medications , psychotherapy, the other therapies must be included. Priests ( of any religion) could sit by the patients, and grant the comfort, too. Help must be granted, for loved ones, too, as they do become patients. Social support must be granted and delivered, by the political leaders- not only their debates, at the Parliament Houses.

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03 March 2018
Palmira Rudaleviciene
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Vilnius Mental Health Centre, and Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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