The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7386 p133
4 February 2006

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· Pharmaceutical industry
· Euthanasia
· Overseas pharmacists
· The Council

Letters to the Editor

Euthanasia

Prospect of pharmacist involvement raises anxiety about supply

From Mr S. J. Lewis, MRPharmS

I am writing to express my dismay at the prospects of pharmacists supplying “medicines” that may in fact be used to terminate people’s lives. As a Christian pharmacist, as well as a church pastor, it is incompatible with my beliefs to end someone’s life. Surely our aim as pharmacists is to provide medicines to improve the health of patients and to make their lives, however long or short, as pain-free as possible. I trust that my fellow pharmacists will ensure that we do not embark on a slippery slide towards euthanasia.

Simon Lewis
Hove, East Sussex

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