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Article: High Court: Terminally ill have no suicide right.
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- The Boston Herald
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- June 27, 1997
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With yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the terminally ill have no constitutional right to doctor-assisted suicide, attention in Massachusetts turns toward a plan to improve pain management so patients will have options other than taking their own lives.
The high court's 9-0 ruling allows individual states to decide on the controversial practice. In the Bay State, there is a bill pending to allow doctor-assisted suicide but it has won little support in the Legislature.
Key leaders of the judiciary committee, however, are planning Monday to order a pain-management study that is expected to lead to new state laws improving care of the dying.
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