Md Fuels Debate On Right to Die

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"It is clear that the cost of health care is not sustainable for our society and the society is going to have to make some tough decisions. Dr. [Robert Cushman] is right to open up the debate," said Dr. Andrew Falconer, deputy chief of staff at Ottawa's Queensway-Carleton Hospital. "I would assume that a debate like that is going to lead us in the direction of caps on some services but quite frankly, it is a debate that ought to go on."

His comments drew swift condemnation from Physicians for Life, which accused him of promoting euthanasia. The group says "dying with dignity" is often a code for allowing frail, elderly and often helpless people to take their own lives, or get strangers to do it for them.

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Md Fuels Debate On Right to Die

Link to care cost stirs controversy

By Mohammed Adam

OTTAWA -- A national debate on balancing the right to life with...

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