After many years of hard and detailed work examining the dangerous trends and effects of legalizing
assisted suicide, a year ago the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) issued a report to the full AMA to maintain their opposition position to
assisted suicide.
After she was refused insurance to pay for chemotherapy, Oregon Health Plan offered to pay for
assisted suicide instead.
It refused to regard PAS as being different from
assisted suicide in general, and it rejected the constitutional claim to
assisted suicide by a terminally ill person.
Assisted suicide is legal in Oregon, Washington state, the District of Columbia, California, Colorado and Vermont.
This reference for undergraduate students and up outlines the moral, legal and professional approaches that have shaped contemporary debates on euthanasia and
assisted suicide. Contributors bring perspectives from philosophy, psychology, theology, social sciences, law, bioethics, and medicine.
Shoved or unshoved, History has certainly endowed proponents of
assisted suicide with generous funding and almost Pavlovian media approval.
Even though five states have legalized physician
assisted suicide, it remains a heated issue.
"There will be three options faced by health boards and new integrated joint boards as well as families - chemotherapy or - radiotherapy, PS5000 a PSweek; palliative care, PS3000 a week; or
assisted suicide, PS5 for one dose of barbiturate.
Canadian law defines
assisted suicide as ''providing another with the knowledge or means to intentionally end his or her own life.''
Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Colombia, Japan and in the U.S.
Several interest groups in support of striking down Canada's law that criminalizes physician
assisted suicide stood near the steps of the Supreme Court Building.
Before Dignitas will agree to provide
assisted suicide patients must submit to an in-depth medical report prepared by a psychiatrist.
