Issues in Law & Medicine articles from December 1995

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from December 1995

The constitutional case against permitting physician-assisted suicide for competent adults with "terminal conditions."
December 22, 1995... The story of Tim illustrates poignantly an underlying social issue at stake in the legal debate over physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. Aside from the constitutional issues, a question of great social import must be asked: Is...

Breathing life into the right to die: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.
December 22, 1995... Terminal illness, by definition, leads to death. It can also lead to unbearable pain, suffering, and financial hardship. As a result, dying people occasionally seek to end their own lives, sometimes enlisting the aid of friends and loved ones,...

Physician-assisted death in the Netherlands: impact on long-term care.
December 22, 1995... Active euthanasia has been practiced in the Netherlands for twenty-three years, a time probably much too short to expose all the changes euthanasia brings about in society, but long enough to reveal some of the consequences. Indeed, the practice...

The debate on assisted suicide - redefining morally appropriate care for people with intractable suffering.
December 22, 1995... The recent passage of Oregon Measure 16, which would permit physician-assisted suicide under certain conditions, has forced a reevaluation of the proper role for caregivers of patients who are dying or otherwise intractably suffering from...