The cruelty of false 'cure and hope'

The cruelty of false 'cure and hope'

A recent CTMirror op-ed argues that medical aid in dying contradicts the physician’s calling to provide “cure and hope.” Hope is a fragile thing, and in the face of terminal, violent illness, it can become a weapon used to justify the unjustifiable. This year, I had the honor and the horror of holding my father as he died from a long bout with liver cancer. It was not the peaceful, medically curated passing so-often framed by opponents of aid in…