Ezekiel Emanuel in his own words

Ezekiel Emanuel wrote in The Atlantic Monthly in 1997:

The proper policy, in my view, should be to affirm the status of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as illegal. In so doing we would affirm that as a society we condemn ending a patient's life and do not consider that to have one's life ended by a doctor is a right. This does not mean we deny that in exceptional cases interventions are appropriate, as acts of desperation when all other elements of treatment -- all medications, surgical procedures, psychotherapy, spiritual care, and so on -- have been tried. Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia should not be performed simply because a patient is depressed, tired of life, worried about being a burden, or worried about being dependent. All these may be signs that not every effort has yet been made.

An altogether different view from the one ascribed to him by Betsy McCaughey and Bill Hennessy and others who have resorted to vilification rather than taking the time to read and understand.

Medical ethics is a complex discipline, but Emanuel was at every step on the record in opposition to even voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

His entire article is here.