‘just’ about better services and drugs (colour me skeptical, but let’s assume), improve those services and people wouldn’t want to see their lives ended. Assisted dying changes nothing as an option either way, it isn’t objectionable.

Of course it does, that’s what makes this argument so problematic. This has nothing to do with assisted dying, that’s the crux of it. If you remove that option nothing changes for people who want to see their lives ended because they are so miserable. They are in the same spot. If it’s really /2

The obvious ethical question is whether you want to keep decisionally capable patients hostage until that is achieved, because that’s what it means to remove their agency on this question. 🤷‍♂️

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Die letzten Vorbereitungen laufen - morgen geht sie los, die Jahrestagung der AEM in Tübingen! Das Thema "Medizin als Beruf – Professionelles Handeln und Denken in den Gesundheitsberufen angesichts gesellschaftlicher Transformationen und technischer Innovationen". aem2024.de#bioethics#Medizinethik