... dying’ (PAD). 5 Oregon Death with Dignity Act, Or. Rev. Stat. § 127.800 (2015). 6 Id. at 127.805 § 2.01(1). 7 Washington Death with Dignity Act, Wash. Rev. Code § 70.245 (2016). 8 Patient Choice at End of Life, Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5281 (2016). 9 End of Life...

...-assisted suicide (PAS), like abortion, is an issue that defies easy resolution or even accommodation of conflicting viewpoints. [1] . In this special review article, I offer an analysis of the U.S. Department of Justice's challenge, under the Controlled Substances Act, to the Oregon Death with Dignity Act...

...Pamela J. Miller 17 8 1998 29 1 1999 22 3 1999 Life after Death with Dignity: The Oregon Experience Pamela J. Miller This article offers a framework for examination and overview of Oregon’s Death...

.... physician-assisted suicide euthanasia bioethics Christian bioethics death with dignity Christian Bioethics 1380-3603/98/0402-0143$12.00 1998, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 143–167 © Swets & Zeitlinger Physician-Assisted Suicide Reconsidered...

...H. Tristram Engelhardt physician-assisted suicide euthanasia bioethics Christian bioethics death with dignity Correspondence: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Ph.D., M.D., Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A...

... physician aid in dying medical aid in dying physician assisted suicide hastened death death with dignity patient self-administering euthanasia Assisted dying California Colorado Dignity laws District of Columbia Euthanasia Montana Oregon Physician aid in dying PAD Vermont Washington...

.... assisted dying euthanasia physician-assisted death hastened death Death with Dignity Act suicide refusal Assisted dying Ethical considerations Europe Legal considerations Cancer Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS Nursing roles Voluntary refusal of food and fluids VSED VSED voluntary refusal...

... or support for voluntary dying and death with dignity are introduced. The reader learns more about how Dan formulated his plan to overdose. fasting stopping eating and drinking VSED rational suicide death with dignity overdose amitriptyline hydrochloride Elavil Elavil amitriptyline hydrochloride oral...

...Jeffrey Bulger Abstract:“Death with dignity” laws are legal in 11 jurisdictions in the United States and allow individuals to make end-of-life decisions. The central issue surrounding these laws is whether or not practitioner participation in assisted dying is compatible with the healthcare...

... of a practitioner as a healer and states it would cause more harm than good. The American College of Physicians does not support practitioner-assisted suicide or euthanasia. Although some states have legalized practitioner-assisted death, also known as “death with dignity,” the healthcare profession has made...

...This chapter examines the alternative strategy of those advocating physician-assisted death (PAD): passing legislation that allows death with dignity. It begins with an overview of the slippery slope argument and other arguments presented by those opposed to legalization of PAD, including...

... and death  25 *Unknowns are excluded when calculating percentages Source: Tenth Annual Report on Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act (March 9, 2008) Table 5.2 Prescription History under the Death with Dignity Act Year Prescriptions filled Deaths Percentage of prescriptions...

... drugs used to control pain and produce death, with special reference to California's Medical Marijuana Act and Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. More specifically, it asks whether the individual states have the authority to permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes in the face of a federal law...

.... The ecclesiastical emphasis on responsible exercise of moral agency leaves open the prospect for adherents to claim that a version of death with dignity is compatible with LDS ethical principles. Nonetheless, ecclesiastical opposition has extended to opposing specific legislative and citizen referenda advancing...

... the fears it generated, people embraced the ideal of dying with “right thoughts” because it made death meaningful. As with our contemporary notions of “death with dignity,” the odds against achieving it did not discourage its pursuit. Especially in a context where fulfillment of the religious life takes...

...This chapter considers the semantic structure of two abstractions, dignity and sanctity, both individually and in terms of their relation and potential opposition. In the contemporary debate about a right to die, one side claims to uphold an ideal of “death with dignity,” the other an ideal...

... “Maintaining the Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life” Republican National Committee Marx Karl Republican Party platform 2008 Wall Street Journal Right to die Euthanasia Autonomy Freedom of Choice Assisted-Suicide Death with Dignity Leon R. Kass Wesley J. Smith Brian Clark Whose Life Is it Anyway...

... absence of any other conditions. calculation incalculability care conditionality unconditionality death choosing death with dignity dignity human economies health care ill patients hopelessly severely medicine reason resources financial medical human right to die debate sacrifice sanctity...

... suicide Death with Dignity freedom slippery slope happiness suffering pain unhappiness In the current political tempests over how we die that are brewing almost everywhere in the developed world, one side claims that legalization, tacit recognition, or even mere social acceptance...

... is designed to guide physicians who receive a request for PAD. physician-assisted death physician-assisted suicide right to die end-of-life quality death with dignity Dr. Robert Milton is a 41-year-old brilliant, fiercely independent, Nobel Laureate who has dedicated his life to science and research...