“Doctors are uniquely empowered to face and shape their own deaths, whatever the legislation” wrote Dr Mark Porter in a thoughtful & very honest article about euthanasia. Some of their patients may envy that, & feel bitter about how that empowerment is denied to them & their loved ones.
I wonder if anyone has ever done a study of how doctors die (or would like to) – along the lines of those which ask female obstetricians about whether they would choose a C-section over natural childbirth for themselves.
Of course we know that doctors have one of the highest occupational rates of suicide; which means that doctors also know only too well, through the loss of admired friends & colleagues, how even good people, with much life left, may be tempted to leave too soon.
As Dr Porter also writes: “But it’s not what I think that matters ... What really matters is your opinion. So make your voice heard”
