Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A group of psychiatrists published a letter in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry titled: Assessing Competency for Physician-Assisted Suicide is Unethical in response to the letter by Yager et al: Working With Decisionally Capable Patients Who Are Determined to End Their Own Lives. Yager et al suggest that psychiatrists can assess a person who is asking for assisted suicide and a patient with psychiatric conditions, if decisionally capable, can be prescribed lethal drugs.Komrad et al state that assessing competency for assisted suicide is unethical. They argue:Dr Mark Komrad If, as we believe, PAS
