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And welcome back, George Norey, along with Wesley Smith, as we are talking about the humankind,

and his websites are linked up at coast-to-coastam.com.

Wesley, I had mentioned that the 12 jurisdictions have legalized assisted suicide.

No states have legalized euthanasia. What's the difference between the two? Can you tell us?

Yeah. Morally, I don't think there is a difference, but in terms of the discussion, assisted suicide is when somebody assists,

in the case you're talking about generally a doctor,

but it's no longer necessarily a doctor

can also be a nurse practitioner in some states

by prescribing poison and overdose,

an intentional overdose of drugs for somebody to kill

themselves. They like to call it medical aid in dying, made. That's a euphemism to try to get

away from what's really going on, that a doctor is actually assisting a patient kill

themselves. Euthanasia is when the doctor, again, using the general parlance, does the killing.

So it's a homicide.

It's not murder because it's legal in the states, I mean, in the countries such as Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, and so forth.

But it is a homicide where the doctor is killing as a medical treatment. And that gets back to the idea of do harm medicine, because when

doctors become killers, it changes the entire way the culture looks at medicine and also looks

at weak and vulnerable people, ill people

and people with disabilities.

And it becomes a different society because it changes your whole mindset.

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