Doctor-assisted suicide is contagious, too. Why aren't we sounding the alarm?

[ATraveller]

For decades, we’ve known that suicide is contagious and that how we talk about it matters. Now, we’re at least starting to see how crucial it is to honor the lives of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain without perseverating ghoulishly on how they died.

Though it’s no easy thing, we’ve got to find a way to destigmatize without normalizing and to eulogize without glamorizing. Depression is a liar, but we don’t have to be.

A study conducted between 1990 and 2013 and published three years ago in the Southern Medical Journal found the correlation unmistakable: “Controlling for various socioeconomic factors, unobservable state and year effects, and state-specific linear trends, we found that legalizing [physician-assisted suicide] was associated with a 6.3% increase in total suicides.”

http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda-henneberger/article213548244.html

 

[RCIAGraduate]

Instead of euthanasia, what are some alternatives that health care systems can implement in order to better support those with terminal illness and severe medical issues?

 

[Limoncello4021]

Make sure that your will/trust specifies a Catholic approach to death and end of life care.

 

[ATraveller]

More money spent on palliative care but it’s just easier for governments and companies a like to see another human being as a financial burden.
More money on research to find better treatments but governments prefer squandering money on useless things or because some in society create problems that only government can clean up.