The final freedom: maintaining autonomy and valuing life in physician-assisted suicide cases

Article Abstract:

The US District Court in Oregon's decision on Lee v. Oregon properly interpreted the autonomy interests implicated by assisted-suicide laws by striking down the distinction between terminally ill and non-terminally ill people. The US Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and the Second Circuit struck down laws banning assisted suicide in Compassion in Dying v. Washington and Quill v. Vacco, respectively. The appeals courts failed to construct the right to die properly by maintaining distinctions in anticipated quality of life. Suicide should be allowed when accompanied by safeguards ensuring free deliberation.

United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Suicide, Assisted suicide, Right to die

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What you didn't know about risk

Article Abstract:

Risk analysis and management have improved tremendously in the past 15 years with the increasing use of computers and highly sensitive measurement techniques which have made probability analysis precise. Nonetheless, people still react to and even overestimate risks, especially involuntary ones and those which they perceive to cause sensational and terrible consequences.

Analysis, Risk assessment

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Darden, Christopher A

Article Abstract:

Darden was born and grew up in California in a large but poor family. He achieved national fame when he became a part of the prosecutor's team in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson in 1994. He has written a best seller about the trial, 'In Contempt.' Currently he is an associate law professor.

Biography, Authorship, Simpson, O.J., African American attorneys, African American lawyers, In Contempt (Book), Darden, Christopher

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