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PCCEF.ORG - Physicians for Compassionate Care Educational Foundation Physicians for Compassionate Care (PCC) expresses on behalf of all its members profound grief for those vulnerable individuals frightened into committing assisted suicide over the past ten years when they could have received good palliative care instead. Physicians for Compassionate Care has filed a friend of the court brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) appeal of the Oregon assisted-suicide case. His analysis shows that the practice of assisted suicide in Oregon does not match the theory of what was expected when physician-assisted suicide was legalized in Oregon. www.pccef.org

Oregon Hospice Association President Denies Problems with Physician-Assisted Suicide Jackson stated that the state of Oregon has begun scientific research studies to evaluate the practice of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, since it is one of the few sites in the world where physician-assisted suicide has been legalized. She did say that, in her opinion, the hospices and physicians involved closely evaluated each case and provided independent physician and psychiatric evaluation to assure the appropriateness of the physician-assisted suicides/euthanasias. Jackson, the Oregon Hospice Association (and others) clearly support increased funding for hospice services, and amendment to the laws governing the administration of narcotic medications, so that physicians and nurses would not have to fear prosecution when they are sincerely attempting to relieve pain. www.hospicepatients.org /oreg-hosp-assoc.html

DHS CHS: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act However, we have used the term "physician-assisted suicide" rather than "Death with Dignity" to describe the provisions of this law because physician-assisted suicide is the term used by the public, and by the medical literature, to describe ending life through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act requires that the Oregon Health Services (OHS) monitor compliance with the law, collect information about the patients and physicians who participate in legal physician-assisted suicide, and publish an annual statistical report. On October 27, 1997 physician-assisted suicide became a legal medical option for terminally ill Oregonians. www.dhs.state.or.us /publichealth/chs/pas/pas.cfm

EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE: ALL SIDES Physician assisted suicide helps them die under conditions and at the time that they wish. Physician Assisted Suicide: A physician supplies information and/or the means of committing suicide (e.g. An analysis of the first full year of the availability of assisted suicide in Oregon showed that relatively few people requested help in dying. www.religioustolerance.org /euth1.htm

Physician-Assisted Suicide Although assisted suicide is still illegal in the Netherlands, the courts and government have come out with a set of guidelines that when followed ensure that a physician will not be prosecuted -- in essence decriminalizing the act. Although there is know legal, medical, or philosophical historical precedent to allow physician-assisted suicide, physicians believe in physician-assisted suicide enough to knowingly break the law. Fifth, the physician-assisted suicide should be only carried out in a meaningful doctor patient relationship. www.amsa.org /bio/pas.cfm

Amazon.com: Books: Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (Reflective Bioethics) Michael Teitelman, for example, maintains more narrowly that even if physician-assisted suicide is legalized, it should not be available in hospitals because its public character there would be likely to intensify the dangers of assisted suicide, which would be more controllable in other, noninstitutional settings. Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. John Arras maintains that individual morality is not the proper perspective for evaluating claims for or against legalized physician-assisted suicide but that predictable social harms require its rejection and, in any event, whichever policy is chosen will inevitably and tragically harm someone. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415920035

Physician Assisted Suicide The renegade physicians engaged in all this moved, as the record shows, from making themselves complicitous in the deaths of suicides to the killing of disabled infants and to the unbidden killing of the incurably ill, the congenitally ill, the neurotic, the depressed and the old. Let those in the ranks of the lunatic fringe who advocate assisted suicide volunteer to do the assisting while the doctors continue to do the healing. Under this scheme the physician in effect puts the consenting patient to death, despite any pettifogging foofaraw that may be noised publicly as to whose hand wields the syringe or holds the cup. www.literatus.net /essay/Suicide.html

EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE: ALL SIDES She was helped to commit suicide by a physician in violation of Canadian law. Throughout North America, committing suicide or attempting to commit suicide is no longer a criminal offense. One exception is the state of Oregon which allows people who are terminally ill and in intractable pain to get a lethal prescription from their physician. www.religioustolerance.org /euthanas.htm

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical Topic in Medicine No. Physician-assisted suicide refers to the physician providing the means for death, most often with a prescription. It is argued that assisted suicide is morally wrong because it contradicts these beliefs. Potential for abuse: Here the argument is that certain groups of people, lacking access to care and support, may be pushed into assisted death. eduserv.hscer.washington.edu /bioethics/topics/pas.html

Jewish Law - Articles ("Physician-Assisted Suicide Under Jewish Law") Jewish law recognizes that a physician can possibly provide information, such as a diagnosis of a patient's condition and an evaluation regarding the risks of certain treatment, that, as we will see, is relevant to some assisted-suicide issues. If that physician makes the device available to the patient and the patient uses it to commit suicide, the physician violates the rule against lifnei iver. An "assisted suicide" suggests a suicide in which a third person either facilitates or enables a person to commit suicide. www.jlaw.com /Articles/phys-suicide.html

Attitudes of Oregon Psychologists Toward Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Oregon Death With Dignity Act Those who strongly supported assisted suicide were less confident in psychologists' ability to assess the quality of life of patients than were those who endorsed a more moderate view, but more confident that one could assess whether judgment was impaired with regard to the request for assisted suicide. Bivariate analyses suggested that there were not only differences in the predictor items between those most opposed to assisted suicide and those who felt that the procedure should be allowed sometimes or always, but that some differences existed between these latter two groups as well. Assisted suicide will result in distrust of medical profession www.apa.org /journals/pro/pro303235.html

KELN.org--Bibliography: Physician-Assisted Suicide - Update, Aging, Elder Law Research, Legal, Financial, Social, Economic Issues, Kansas Elder Law Network, Aging, Seniors, Legal, Bibliographies, Advocacy Physician assisted-suicide is the ending of a life through the use of certain procedures, usually drugs, administered to a terminally ill person, in order to end that person's life. This article discusses several different avenues to enact legislation related to the legalization of physician-assisted suicide and the author argues that state constitutions appear to be the best method for terminally ill people seeking to legalize assisted suicide. This is a comprehensive guide by Longwood College library that lists resources with information about physician assisted suicide from sources including journals and newspaper articles, radio programs, television programs and an extensive list of websites. www.keln.org /bibs/hower2.html

Hypatia--"Fatal Practices": A Feminist Analysis of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Unless one posits an afterlife, a move I am unwilling to make, there seems no meaningful way to imagine the physician as enabling the dying patient to achieve greater future autonomy, either through assisted suicide or through sedating one to unconsciousness. One might, for example, consider viewing the person who commits an act of euthanasia as one who is civilly disobedient; that is, we can retain laws against euthanasia while recognizing that the family member or provider who assists in a suicide is not the typical lawbreaker and must not be treated as such. Indeed, early in the essay Wolf notes the possibility that physicians may ignore women's requests for death because of misogynis-tic beliefs that women are irrational and overly emotional; she never returns to that possibility in any of her later arguments, however. www.iupjournals.org /hypatia/hyp14-2.html

KELN.org--Physician Assisted Suicide, Aging, Elder Law Research, Legal, Financial, Social, Economic Issues, Kansas Elder Law Network, Aging, Seniors, Legal, Bibliographies, Advocacy Suicide, and more recently physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, raise questions that have troubled societies throughout history. KELN.org--Physician Assisted Suicide, Aging, Elder Law Research, Legal, Financial, Social, Economic Issues, Kansas Elder Law Network, Aging, Seniors, Legal, Bibliographies, Advocacy This note proposes that the conflict over physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia stems from differing conceptions individuals hold about the sanctity of human life. www.keln.org /bibs/mechler.html

Physician Assisted Suicide The Supreme Court decision on physician assisted suicide will, whatever the ruling if history is any indication, only increase the excitable and visceral responses of the public. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, populist exponent of physician assisted suicide, was asked in an interview by William F. Buckley Jr., whether he had read any writings of Buddhism, Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Plato, or the Bible. In the experiences I have had, people died comfortably, though it surely would have been otherwise had not the goal early on been to be aware of dying easily and naturally without suicide or physician assisted suicide. home.pacbell.net /amsec/soc1f.html

DHS: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act Physicians are encouraged to make patients aware of the requirement that the OHS have access to data regarding implementation of the Act. At the time of death, if contacted by the patient (beforehand) or the family, the medical certification of the death should be completed and signed by the attending physician per standard practice. When a death certificate from a patient who has received a prescription for lethal drugs is received by the OHS, a form that captures information about the physician’s knowledge of events surrounding the patient’s death may be sent to the physician. www.dhs.state.or.us /publichealth/chs/pas/pascdsum.cfm

Margaret P. Battin, Ph.D. She has also recently published Ethical Issues in Suicide, trade-titled The Death Debate, as well as several co-edited collections, including Drug Use in Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, and Praying for a Cure, a jointly authored volume on ethics of religious refusal of medical treatment. "Physician-Assisted Suicide: Does the Physician have an Obligation to Help?" in Regulting How We Die: Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide, ed. "Assisted Suicide: Can We Learn from Germany?," The Hastings Center Report, 22(2):44-51 (March-April 1992). www.med.utah.edu /ethics/Battin.htm

Euthanasia News International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Home... www.euthanasianews.com

Bioethics.com - Home The health of test tube babies and their mothers should be tracked more closely to ensure that the growing use of assisted fertility techniques is safe, scientific and ethical advisers said... But then came the rise of preventive medicine - the idea that it was the job of the physician to search for diseases and treat them before they caused symptoms... Although it has been a long time coming, physicians are beginning to consider the Internet an integral part of their practice... www.bioethics.com

Assisted suicide Clinical Problems with the Performance of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands, New England Journal of Medicine, February 24, 2000 Ashcroft ruling on federally controlled substances and assisted suicide, November 2001 Oregon Health Division 2003 annual report on assisted suicide (3/04) www.ortl.org /suicide.htm

Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Those who oppose the legalizing of physician-assisted death make arguments and voice fears that are formidable indeed. The essay that was formerly on this page has been published as a part of a chapter in a book with the title The Ethics of Assisted Death: When Life Becomes a Burden too Hard to Bear (Lima, OH: CSS Publishing Co., 1999). Nevertheless, I conclude that the stronger case rests with those who advocate the legalizing of assisted death under carefully regulated conditions. www.frontiernet.net /~kenc/asuici.htm

Should Assisted Suicide Be Only Physician Assisted? -- Faber-Langendoen and Karlawish 132 (6): 482 -- Annals of Internal Medicine Byock I. Physician-assisted suicide is not an acceptable practice for physicians. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: attitudes and experiences of oncology patients, oncologists, and the public. Brody H. Assisting in patient suicides is an acceptable practice for physicians. www.annals.org /issues/v132n6/full/200003210-00010.html

BMA response to physician-assisted suicide survey Physician-assisted suicide has been debated many times at the BMA's annual meetings and on every occasion the membership has decided against calling for a change in the law. "As the body representing doctors in the UK, the BMA is opposed to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide because this is the view of the majority of its members. When respondents were asked under what circumstances they thought the law should permit voluntary euthanasia, 53% answered 'under no circumstances' - a clear majority. www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=15295

ERGO - Euthanasia World Directory How voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is practiced in The Netherlands and in Switzerland. Latest edition of the best known story on assisted suicide. It is 192 pages of vital information about assisted suicide and euthanasia. www.finalexit.org

DHS CHS: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act Annual Report 2002 Based on physician interviews for 171 patients who died after ingesting a lethal dose of medication - Oregon, 1998-2003. Table 4 : Death with Dignity Act participant end of life care and DWDA utilization. www.ohd.hr.state.or.us /chs/pas/ar-index.cfm

Euthanasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 2003, in Oregon 42 cases of physician assisted suicide were reported (0.14% of all deaths), all by drinking a strong barbiturate potion. Officially reported were also 148 cases of physician assisted suicide (0.14% of all deaths), usually by drinking a strong barbiturate potion. 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. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assisted_suicide   (1810 words)

Loading Content... Opposes euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, promoting compassionate, medical, emotional, and social care at the end of life. Site offers current news, legal cases and resources on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. euthanasia,right to die,mercy killing,against euthanasia,history of euthanasia,euthanasia statistics,euthanasia pro and cons,argument euthanasia,euthanasia mercy killing,die euthanasia right,assisted suicide,physician-assisted suicide,physician assisted suicide,end-of-life issues,hospice care,Oregon assisted suicide,Vermont assisted suicide,Maine assisted suicide,Hawaii assisted suicide,Kevorkian victims,right-to-die court cases,death with dignity,lethal injection,poisoning,advance directives,pain control www.nightingalealliance.org   (70 words)

US Supreme Court; Assisted Suicide Annotated Legal Cases on Physician-Assisted Suicide in the USA, 89 pp. U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Physician Assisted Suicide Cases The Oregon Death with Dignity Act requires that the Oregon Health Division (OHD) monitor compliance with the law, collect information about the patients and physicians who participate in legal physician-assisted suicide, and publish an wings.buffalo.edu /faculty/research/bioethics/court.html   (583 words)

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical Topic in Medicine -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)

Doctor-assisted Suicide? Physician assisted suicide is fundamentally inconsistent with the physician's professional role A second study, this one an analysis of a series of consecutive deaths labeled "doctor assisted suicide", found that in 52% of the cases the patients had not given informed consent for "suicide". To those who have had to live through such an experience, the idea of doctor-assisted suicide appears to be, at first blush, a merciful alternative. pages.prodigy.com /DOCTORINFORM/suicide.htm   (988 words)

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