Pediatricians are being increasingly asked about physician-assisted death by both minors and their parents, a new survey finds.
As the right to choose to die becomes more widely protected in the US, the issues faced by Canada – which has been more progressive on the matter – may act as bell weathers for what’s to come in America.
The survey was conducted in the aftermath of the June 2016 passage of a bill legalizing medically assisted death for adults in Canada, and found that nearly half of pediatricians believed that ‘mature minors’ should be afforded the same right if they are terminally ill.
Of the responding doctors, 11 percent had had discussions about helping minor patients die.
