{"id":4344,"date":"2018-07-31T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T04:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectif.lesartsmartial.com\/en\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:21:19","slug":"physicians-alliance-newsletter-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectifmedecins.org\/en\/physicians-alliance-newsletter-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicians’ Alliance Newsletter, July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brave New World?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to Health Canada\u2019s recently released Third Interim Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada<\/a>, approximately 1,500 people died through active physician administered euthanasia in the six month period from July 1st to December 31st<\/sup>, 2017. This number, with reference to our common experience, is both small enough to be easily comprehensible, and large enough to command respect: a thousand dollars are a lot of dollars; a thousand kilometres are a lot of kilometres; and a thousand lives are a lot of lives.<\/p>\n

There is a special solemnity we feel at the sight of any mortality statistics. We subconsciously feel the finality, the quiet and the weight, of the endless rows of burial plots where slumber those who have preceded us. But in this case, there is also a surreal dimension to our experience: because the defining characteristic of our acceptance lies in the inevitability of death. We are used to struggling, at great cost, with any sort of fatal contingency; we are used to denunciation and outrage at any sort of homicide; as doctors, especially, we are dedicated to combat the one and to refuse the other. We accept death, then, because we must. But only<\/em> because we must. Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n

Make euthanasia unimaginable.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Catherine Ferrier
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Doctor’s voices\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n