The World Medical Association (WMA) reaffirms opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide as we see from the Judicial and Social Humanitarian ground many times request for these are made before treating physician and media and social judicial pressure put Doctors to carry forward such request. The World Medical Association has reaffirmed its long-standing policy of opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. After an intensive process of consultation with physicians and nonphysicians around the world, the WMA at its annual Assembly in Tbilisi, Georgia, adopted a revised Declaration on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide.
This states: ‘The WMA reiterates its strong commitment to the principles of medical ethics and that utmost respect has to be maintained for human life. Therefore, the WMA is firmly opposed to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.’ It…
