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	Euthanasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Euthanasia in a wider sense includes assisting sufferers to commit suicide, in particular physician-assisted suicide; this is legal in a small number of jurisdictions.
		Officially reported were also 148 cases of physician assisted suicide (0.14% of all deaths), usually by drinking a strong barbiturate potion.
		In 2003, in Oregon 42 cases of physician assisted suicide were reported (0.14% of all deaths), all by drinking a strong barbiturate potion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assisted_suicide (1810 words)

	When Death is Sought Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context
		Central to the current discussion of assisted suicide and euthanasia is a need to understand the nature of suicide, the motivation of individuals who commit suicide, and the specific risk factors.
		Suicide represents an escape or release from that pain.(9) Contrary to popular opinion, suicide is not usually a reaction to an acute problem or crisis in one's life or even to a terminal illness.
		In fact, hopelessness is a better predictor of completed suicide than depression alone.(16) Feelings of hopelessness and helplessness interact with the perception of psychological pain and the individual's sense that his or her current suffering is inescapable.
	www.health.state.ny.us /nysdoh/consumer/patient/chap1.htm (3930 words)

	Assisted Suicide
		While suicide is no longer a crime – and where it is because of a failure to update the law it is not enforced – assistance remains a crime almost everywhere by some statute or other.
		Assisted suicide is a crime in the Republic of Ireland.
		The strongest indication that the Western world is moving gradually to allow assisted suicide for the dying and the incurable rather than to permitting voluntary euthanasia comes from a huge survey that the Council of Europe did in 2002.
	www.assistedsuicide.org /suicide_laws.html (2541 words)

	ANA Position Statement: Assisted Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The profession's response to nurse participation in assisted suicide is grounded in the ethical traditions and goals of the profession, and in its covenant with society.
		Assisted suicide is not to be confused with ethically justified end-of-life decisions and actions.
		Requests for assisted suicide can be related to numerous factors including unrelieved pain and other symptoms, depression, feelings of loss of control, fear of isolation, concern for family and a sense of hopelessness.
	www.nursingworld.org /readroom/position/ethics/etsuic.htm (2335 words)

	End-of-Life Care Issues
		Second, assisted suicide, unlike euthanasia, does not involve the ending of life by a physician, as it is the dying person himself or herself who takes the steps to end his or her life.
		Some, who see assisted suicide as similar to euthanasia, believe that moral objections to assisted suicide are strengthened by examining historical precedents, specifically the experience of Nazi Germany in which "undesirable" groups of people (including Jews, persons with disabilities, and sexual minorities) were put to death.
		A related argument is that the option of assisted suicide for mentally competent, terminally ill people could give rise to a new cultural norm of an obligation to speed up the dying process and subtly influence end-of-life decisions of all sorts.
	www.apa.org /pi/eol/arguments.html (4977 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s DID YOU KNOW? Responsa: Assisted Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rather than assist the patient in dying, the proper response to such circumstances is to provide the patient with a group of people who clearly and repeatedly reaffirm their interest in the patient's continued life.
		The current ban on assisted suicide inevitably infringes on the liberty to gain assistance in dying, but that is a reasonable price to pay in order to preserve the liberty of far more people to continue living without having to justify their choice.
		Assisted suicide, in other words, rarely occurs in the morally pure atmosphere usually assumed in arguments about its moral appropriateness, and as soon as one exposes the less noble motives often involved, it seems considerably less honorable.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/diduknow/responsa/cjmag_asstsuicide.shtml (9680 words)

	Alternative Sentence - A counterproposal to assisted suicide. By William Saletan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The administrators of assisted suicide in the Netherlands opened their doors and files to Hendin, expecting him to like what he saw.
		The Dutch like to point out that their suicide rate fell, but Hendin projects numbers on a screen to show that the suicides were more than replaced by a rise in assisted suicides and euthanasia.
		The more Hendin explains about assisted suicide, the more it sounds like the early history of legalized abortion—the networks of sympathetic doctors, the allegations that they've become hardened to killing, the simultaneous public feeling that the practice shouldn't be prosecuted but shouldn't be encouraged, either.
	slate.msn.com /id/2114344 (1623 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief
		If assisted suicide were permitted in principle, every state would presumably adopt regulations to insure that a patient's decision for suicide is informed, competent, and free.
		But that is not true in the case of assisted suicide: patients in certain circumstances have a right that the state not forbid doctors to assist in their deaths, but they have no right to compel a doctor to assist them.
		The Netherlands has allowed assisted suicide, in practice, for several years, and there was much disagreement in the various briefs filed in these cases about the lessons to be drawn from the Dutch experience.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19970327041F (8342 words)

	Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
		Opponents of assisted death express fear that the poor, the disabled, and the marginalized might be put under pressure to end their lives if doctors were legally allowed to hasten death.
		The argument for assisted death typically begins with a very narrow definition that assumes three conditions: (1) the patient is near death, (2) in unmanageable pain or other unbearable discomfort, and (3) mentally competent to make a voluntary request.
		Many are afraid that assisted suicide voluntarily chosen by the dying presses inexorably toward the dreadful possibility of death administered to vulnerable members of society who will have no choice in the matter.
	www.frontiernet.net /~kenc/asuici.htm (8853 words)

	Assisted Suicide
		The first signs of organized activity on this issue came in the late 1930s in Britain, but nothing really happened until the 1970s when the public -- the non-medical world -- woke up with a shock to the fact that we often die differently nowadays compared to our ancestors.
		Assisted suicide laws around the world are clear in some nations but unclear – if they exist at all – in others.
		A great many people instinctively feel that suicide and assisted suicide are such individual acts of freedom and free will that they assume there are no legal prohibitions.
	www.assistedsuicide.org (313 words)

	Wesley J. Smith on Assisted Suicide on National Review Online
		When Oregon legalized assisted suicide in a public referendum in 1994 (Measure 16), activists on both sides of the issue — myself included — expected legalization to sweep the country.
		Once the smoke had cleared and all the votes were counted, assisted suicide had been defeated by 51-49 percent, the mirror opposite of the result in Oregon in 1994.
		Because much of the current case against assisted suicide is secular, people who once worried about the imposition of religion will now willingly consider arguments that might not have previously been heeded.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-smith052003.asp (1166 words)

	SUICIDE AND ASSISTED SUICIDE
		The only thing that laws against suicide force one to do when committing suicide is use techniques that are either messy, painful, dangerous to others—or all three.
		It is this fear that causes people to use fail-safe (that is, absolutely guaranteed) methods of suicide that either hurt (hanging, slitting wrists in a warm bathtub), are messy (bullets in the head), or could potentially harm others (jumping off buildings, high-speed car crashes).
		Nowhere is the concept of assisted suicide and the cruelty of making it illegal more pronounced than when individuals are unable to take their own lives.
	www.mcwilliams.com /books/aint/312.htm (1339 words)

	Pitfalls of physician-assisted suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nothing is said about the right of states to allow assisted suicide or about the status of this practice in states which have no law concerning it.
		In a country where suicide is the eighth leading cause of death, we should not be surprised at the many requests for physician-assisted suicide.
		Indeed, a major factor in requests for suicide is depression, even when it is secondary to physical symptoms or to a general state of helplessness.
	www.physiciansnews.com /commentary/997wp.html (1257 words)

	Assisted Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Suicide is the act and intent of a person to cause death to himself by direct killing (such as by lethal drug) or by withholding or withdrawing ordinary means (self-starvation).
		Suicide is "against the King," depriving him of a subject, "transformed in American law to an inherent function of government to protect human life and not allow its destruction by legally permitting self-destruction.
		Assisted feeding of some patients (those in a persistent vegetative state) is excessively burdensome because of the cost of care and the emotional cost to the family.
	www.all.org /issues/ie03.htm (20776 words)

	Longwood University
		Any serious consideration of the topic physician-assisted suicide inevitably draws from ethics and medical ethics, law, medical practices, philosophy, psychology, public policy, and religion as one explores questions surrounding the central issue of the right to die.
		When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context early in the last decade provided one of the most comprehensive and systematic analyses of the issues to date.
		Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999, passed by the House, received in the Senate on November 19, 1999 and referred to the Committee on Judiciary, becomes the law of the land, the legal and political landscape surrounding doctor assisted suicide will once again be markedly altered.
	www.longwood.edu /library/suic.htm (985 words)

	Wesley J. Smith on Assisted Suicide on National Review Online
		Unlike in previous state referendums, supporters of assisted suicide were better financed than their opponents, making their success a likelihood.
		Then, opponents of assisted suicide were almost exclusively (if inaccurately) depicted as religiously motivated — even though medical, nursing, and hospice professional organizations also almost universally opposed legalization.
		After Oregon's law passed, both opponents and supporters of assisted suicide anticipated that this demagogic advocacy strategy would effectively break down what seemed to be weakening resistance among the public to the legalization of assisted suicide.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/smith200401190806.asp (1216 words)

	International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Home
		Addressing the issues of euthanasia, assisted suicide, advance directives, assisted suicide proposals, "right-to-die" cases, euthanasia practices in the Netherlands, disability rights, pain control and much, much more.
		In Canada, Parliament is set to debate an assisted suicide/euthanasia bill (C-407) at end of October.
		Dutch euthanasia studies; Britain and Canada debate euthanasia and assisted suicide; Belgium; Peter Singer and more.
	www.internationaltaskforce.org (299 words)

	Assisted Suicide
		Euthanasia can be voluntary (the person gives informed consent, as in assisted suicide); non-voluntary (the person who is killed is incapable of giving consent); involuntary (the person refuses consent); or compulsory (mandated death).
		In assisted suicide, someone provides an individual with the information, guidance and/or means to take his or her own life.
		In Minnesota, assisted suicide and attempted assisted suicide are criminal acts.
	www.mfc.org /resources/backgrounders/assistedsuicide.htm (2725 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Euthanasia: Assisted Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief - Legal arguments for the legalization of physician assisted suicide from the 1997 Supreme Court amicus brief by six philosophers.
		Ayn Rand Institute: Thomas Bowden - "Assisted Suicide: A Moral Right" - Bowden argues that assisted dying is an American right.
		Honolulu Advertiser - "Oregon not deluged with assisted suicides" - An editorial about the successful implementation of Oregon assisted dying law.
	dmoz.org /Society/Issues/End-of-Life/Euthanasia/Assisted_Suicide (354 words)

	Assisted Suicide
		All kinds of people in difficult situations could be at risk of being intimidated or forced into feeling their early death would be a convenience to society.
		The advances in medical science, and in particular the capacity of medical science to intervene in the natural cycle of life and death, have led also to a re-examination of many fundamental issues, including the protection Canadian society should accord to the values of sanctity of life.
		She determined that she would like to activate a machine that would facilitate her death, but would also like to have a physician present, in case, through some unpredictable eventuality, something went awry and she needed further aid in dying.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/Assisted_Suicide.html (1010 words)

	Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.
		Fatal Freedom: The Ethics And Politics Of Suicide by Thomas Szasz (Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse) is a thoughtful and persuasively written defense of the individual's right to voluntarily choose the time and manner of their own death.
		Of all the many books on suicide I've read through the years, this book rates highest on my list of books that are helpful in terms of the understanding it provides to survivors of suicide, including both the legacy and the different ways we process and come to terms with a s uicide.
		Now professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, she explores the complex psychology of suicide, especially in people younger than 40: why it occurs, why it is one of our most significant health problems, and how it can be prevented.
	www.psycom.net /bookstore.suicide.html (2753 words)

	CNN.com - Federal judge upholds Oregon assisted-suicide law - April 17, 2002
		The judge suggested Ashcroft was trying to overstep his bounds, noting that opponents of the Oregon law had failed to get Congress to ban nationwide the practice of assisted suicide.
		Jones ruled that the federal government does not have the authority under the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit doctors from dispensing drugs used to assist in suicide.
		The government had claimed assisted suicide is not a legitimate medical purpose.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/04/17/oregon.assisted.suicide (484 words)

	O'Keefe Library-Best Information on the Net - Hot Topics - Euthanasia
		International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force--includes information on countries with assisted suicide laws, and their experiences, statistics on death and suicide, information on pain control, and on managed care/cost containment issues.
		Not Dead Yet--sponsored by disability activists opposed to assisted suicide.
		Suicide Facts and Statistics -- from the U.S. Nat'l Institute of Mental Health.
	library.sau.edu /bestinfo/Hot/bioethics/euthan.htm (294 words)

	Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical Topic in Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		-assisted suicide (PAS) generally refers to a practice in which the physician provides a patient with a lethal dose of medication, upon the patient's request, which the patient intends to use to end his or her own life.
		No. Physician-assisted suicide refers to the physician providing the means for death, most often with a prescription.
		Timothy Quill was investigated but not indicted for his participation in the suicide of a patient after he published his account of the incident.
	eduserv.hscer.washington.edu /bioethics/topics/pas.html (1612 words)

	International Task Force - Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide in Australia
		Philip Nitschke has expressed the view that assisted suicide shouldn't be restricted to just one subgroup of people, like those with terminal illness.
		Healthy 79-year-old Lisette Nigot's suicide note was released by euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke who said Nigot was one of a growing number of healthy people seeking his help.
		Women more likely to be victims of assisted suicide and euthanasia in Australia, the Netherlands and the United States.
	www.internationaltaskforce.org /austr.htm (617 words)

	Poll Shows Little Support for Assisted Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the March poll of 1,031 nationwide, 30.4% of those surveyed would rather have a doctor put a merciful end to their suffering than wait for a natural death.
		Respondents aged 18-29 and over 65 were less likely to consider assisted suicide than were those aged 30-64.
		Blacks were far less likely than whites to choose euthanasia over a protracted death by terminal disease.
	www.nrlc.org /euthanasia/facts/suicideassistpoll.html (172 words)

	USATODAY.com - High court to review USA's only assisted-suicide law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But in upholding state bans on the practice, it suggested that states were free to set their own policies — an idea that could be tested by the Oregon case.
		More than 40 states prohibit assisted suicide, either through statutes or state court rulings.
		The Justice Department says that "assisting in suicide is not a legitimate medical purpose" allowed under U.S. drug law.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-02-22-court-suicides_x.htm (483 words)

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