Assisted suicide argued

Article Abstract:

Michael Sexton, president of the California Medical Association stated that instead of assisted suicide, patients should be provided better pain therapy, end-of-life care and hospice services. Attempts are being made to reinstate the interpretive rule which construes that Oregon's assisted suicide law ran afoul of the federal controlled Substances Act and did not consider it a legitimate medical purpose.

Executive changes & profiles, Officials and employees, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Sexton, Michael, California Medical Association

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Process of dying

Article Abstract:

The process of dying underwent a gradual and radical transformation in the United States in the mid- and late-20th century creating difficult ethical issues for doctors, patients and eventually for judges and legislators. In the 19th and 20th century, doctors routinely provided terminal patients with pain relieving drugs including opium and morphine in sufficient doses to assure a peaceful passing.

Advance directives (Medicine)

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Politics of dying

Article Abstract:

The Karen Ann Quinlan case ignited efforts nationwide to recognize and define the right to refuse life-support treatments, which is discussed in brief. All 50 states and the District of Columbia recognized healthcare proxies while Massachusetts, Michigan and New York including the District of Columbia have laws recognizing living wills.

Washington, DC, Company legal issue, Cases, Washington, D.C., Quinlan, Karen Ann

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