Transcript: Commentary: New federal legislation makes it easier for doctors to prescribe powerful painkillers to terminally ill patients while still restricting doctor-assisted suicide

Article: A life-or-death decision. (the indecision of gay and lesbian ...
The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine);  February 18, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... looked at whether terminally ill patients have the right to ask a ... an official position [on assisted suicide]," says Helen Gonzales ... so. But if physician-assisted suicide isn't viewed as a gay ... been in the vanguard of the assisted-suicide movement. The two cases ...

Article: Death on Demand: The Assisted-Suicide Movement ...
National Right to Life News;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Should laws against assisted suicide be rescinded as "paternalistic?" Should assisted suicide be transformed from what is now a crime ... into a sacred "right to die"? Should assisted suicide be redefined from a form of homicide ...

Article: Why we must not make the 'right to die' legal This week a woman ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the Director of Public Prosecutions to clarify the law on assisted suicide. Ms Purdy has multiple sclerosis. She believes her life ... is to end it in a country (such as Switzerland) where assisted suicide is legal, her husband won't face charges in Britain ...

Article: Public Divided Over Moral Acceptability of Doctor-Assisted ...
Gallup Poll News Service;  May 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... terminally ill patients with ending ... whether doctor-assisted suicide is morally ... doctor-assisted suicide ranks in the ... Terminally Ill Patients End Their Life ... and doctor-assisted suicide. Half of the ...

Article: ASSISTED SUICIDE ASHCROFT ATTACKS ALL TERMINALLY ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  November 12, 2001 ;     474 words ... ... Dignity law demonstrates all too clearly that this is an attack not only on the citizens of Oregon but on all terminally ill patients needing relief from pain. It's also an attack on their families and medical providers. There are no grounds for overriding ...

Article: Yes, go-ahead: doctor-assisted suicide. (Oregon ...
The Economist (US);  November 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... having some form of physician-assisted suicide affirmed twice by the people ... decriminalisation" of doctor-assisted suicide. But that is a weak measure ... Mr Caplan says, terminally ill patients will feel subtle yet clear ...

Transcript: BANNING USE OF DRUGS FOR ASSISTED ...
Congressional Testimony;  July 14, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... substances for assisted suicide is sanctioning ... to terminally ill patients. Moreover, while ... health problem, assisted suicide should not become ... which terminally ill patients requested assisted suicide. In one case ...