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The Necessary Right of Choice for Physician-Assisted Suicide
Student Publications Student Scholarship Fall 2017 The ecesN sary Right of Choice for Physician- Assisted Suicide Kerry E. Ullman Gettysburg College Follow this and additional works at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship Part of the Applied Ethics Commons, and the Ethics in Religion Commons Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Ullman, Kerry E., "The eN cessary Right of Choice for Physician-Assisted Suicide" (2017). Student Publications. 574. https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/574 This open access student research paper is brought to you by The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of The uC pola. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The ecesN sary Right of Choice for Physician-Assisted Suicide Abstract Research-based paper on the importance of the right for terminally ill patients facing a painful death to be able to choose how they end their life Keywords Assisted-Suicide, Maynard, Kevorkian, Terminally-ill Disciplines Applied Ethics | Ethics in Religion Comments Written for FYS 150: Death and the Meaning of Life. Creative Commons License Creative ThiCommons works is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This student research paper is available at The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ student_scholarship/574 Ullman 1 Kerry Ullman Professor Myers, Ph.D. Death and the Meaning of Life - FYS 30 November 2017 Assisted Suicide The Necessary Right of Choice for Physician-Assisted Suicide Imagine being told you have less than six months left to live. On top of that horrific news, you experience excruciating pain every single day that is far more atrocious than anything you could have possibly imagined. -
FENA Conversation with Fran
FINAL EXIT NETWORK VOL 18 • NO 1 WINTER, JAN/FEB 2019 CONTENTS TTHEHE TIME TO IMPROVE OREGON-STYLE LAWS? .........3 GOODGOOD DEMENTIA ADVANCE DEATHDEATH DIRECTIVES ...........................5 FISCAL YEAR REPORT ............9 SOCIETYSOCIETY AMERICANS ACCEPT FEN EUTHANASIA ..................... 11 A Conversation With Fran By Michael James, FEN Life Member enior Guide Fran Schindler’s voice was raspy after five days of protesting in Washington, DC, but this remarkable 79- Q: year-old’sS enthusiasm for FEN and life in general was loud and clear. “The privilege of someone being What’s going to willing to have me with them when they die, when I happen to you? only just sit with them, is the most meaningful thing I have ever done.” In the late 1980s, Fran faced a series of daunt- ing issues: a brain tumor, divorce, and mysterious A. symptoms which mimicked ALS. She acknowledg- es she became obsessed with finding ways to kill I will get dead. herself during those dark days. Eventually she heard Faye Girsh lecture about FEN. She quickly signed up for training and got her FEN membership card in November 2006. Twelve years later she estimates FRAN continued on page 2 Renew your membership online: www.finalexitnetwork.org FRAN continued from page 1 she’s been present for over 70 individuals who have taken their lives using FEN protocol. “At the FEN training class I discovered a major benefit of being a “Start doing FEN member. I looked at the trainers and my fellow classmates—people who didn’t know me—and real- what you want ized that if I needed them they would be there for me. -
Assisted Suicide, the Due Process Clause and "Fidelity in Translation"
Fordham Law Review Volume 63 Issue 4 Article 11 1995 Assisted Suicide, the Due Process Clause and "Fidelity in Translation" Willard C. Shih Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Willard C. Shih, Assisted Suicide, the Due Process Clause and "Fidelity in Translation", 63 Fordham L. Rev. 1245 (1995). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol63/iss4/11 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Law Review by an authorized editor of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ASSISTED SUICIDE, THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE AND "FIDELITY IN TRANSLATION" WILLARD C. SHIH INTRODUCTION [T]he prospect of impossibility should not dissuade any scientist or doctor who is sincerely dedicated to the pursuit of empirical truth. A prerequisite for that noble aim is the ideal of unfettered experi- mentation on human death under impeccably ethical conditions. [Physician-assisted suicide], as I have outlined it, comes closest to that ideal, now and for the foreseeable future. The practice should be legitimized and implemented as soon as possible; but that calls for the strident advocacy of influential personalities who, unfortu- nately, choose to remain silent or disinterested-or simply antithetical.' Dr. Kevorkian authored this passage hoping that other physicians would read it and join his crusade supporting physician-assisted sui- cide. The mere mention of his name stirs up different images in peo- ple's minds. -
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH Professor Valerie J. Vollmar Willamette University College of Law Copyright 2007 *NOTE: The title of this report uses the term “physician-assisted death” instead of “physician-assisted suicide” for the first time. The reasons for this change are described below under “National Developments.” The report continues to use the term “physician-assisted suicide” when that term appears in the original source. The address and title of this website remain unchanged for ease in accessing the site. LEGISLATION Arizona Physician-assisted suicide and advance directive to control suffering. In January 2007, Representative Linda Lopez and eight other Democrats introduced HB 2572, which is similar to the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. On the same date, they also introduced HB 2357, which would amend Arizona’s advance directive statutes so that a person could indicate a desire to control suffering in the event of terminal illness by obtaining a prescription for lethal medication; the advance directive would have to be executed at least three months before the person requests a prescription. As was the case with comparable legislation introduced in 2005 and 2006, the bills have not advanced in the legislature. Million Geezer March. On 1/24/07, Representative Lopez joined other supporters of the proposed legislation in demonstrating outside the state capitol in Phoenix. California Bill introduced. On 2/15/07, Assemblywoman Patty Berg, Assemblymen Lloyd Levine, and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez introduced AB 374 (the California Compassionate Choices Act) in the California legislature. Twenty-four other members of the legislature co-authored the bill, which was patterned after the Oregon Death with Dignity Act but requires a mental health evaluation by a psychiatrist or psychologist if the patient is not in hospice care. -
Physician-Assisted Death, Dementia, and Euthanasia: Using an Advanced Directive to Facilitate the Desires of Those with Impending Memory Loss Katie Franklin
Idaho Law Review Volume 51 | Number 2 Article 6 March 2019 Physician-Assisted Death, Dementia, and Euthanasia: Using an Advanced Directive to Facilitate the Desires of Those with Impending Memory Loss Katie Franklin Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.uidaho.edu/idaho-law-review Recommended Citation Katie Franklin, Physician-Assisted Death, Dementia, and Euthanasia: Using an Advanced Directive to Facilitate the Desires of Those with Impending Memory Loss, 51 Idaho L. Rev. 547 (2019). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uidaho.edu/idaho-law-review/vol51/iss2/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ UIdaho Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Idaho Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ UIdaho Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH, DEMENTIA, AND EUTHANASIA: USING AN ADVANCED DIRECTIVE TO FACILITATE THE DESIRES OF THOSE WITH IMPENDING MEMORY LOSS TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 547 II. THE STRUGGLE OF DEMENTIA ............................................................ 549 A. The Palliative Care Option ................................................................. 550 B. Physician-Assisted Death ................................................................... 551 i. Legalization ................................................................................... 552 III. HISTORY OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED -
If Kevorkian Could Meet Hippocrates Scott Av N Dyke Cedarville University
CedarEthics: A Journal of Critical Thinking in Bioethics Volume 7 Article 1 Number 2 2008 May 2008 If Kevorkian Could Meet Hippocrates Scott aV n Dyke Cedarville University DigitalCommons@Cedarville provides a publication platform for fully open access journals, which means that all articles are available on the Internet to all users immediately upon publication. However, the opinions and sentiments expressed by the authors of articles published in our journals do not necessarily indicate the endorsement or reflect the views of DigitalCommons@Cedarville, the Centennial Library, or Cedarville University and its employees. The uthora s are solely responsible for the content of their work. Please address questions to [email protected]. Recommended Citation Van Dyke, Scott (2008) "If Kevorkian Could Meet Hippocrates," CedarEthics: A Journal of Critical Thinking in Bioethics: Vol. 7 : No. 2 , Article 1. DOI: 10.15385/jce.2008.7.2.1 Available at: http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarethics/vol7/iss2/1 If Kevorkian Could Meet Hippocrates Browse the contents of this issue of CedarEthics: A Journal of Critical Thinking in Bioethics. Keywords Ethics, Kevorkian, Hippocrates Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarethics Part of the Bioethics and Medical Ethics Commons This article is available in CedarEthics: A Journal of Critical Thinking in Bioethics: http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarethics/ vol7/iss2/1 CedarEthics 2008 Volume 7 Number 2 1 ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ If Kevorkian Could Meet Hippocrates Scott Van Dyke Cedarville University ack is sitting in his prison cell during the seventh year of his sentence for second degree murder. -
The Death of and the -1 Truth About, Euthanasia
If someone you care about bought FinaZElxit, you must buy them D~lyComl,assiOn. Derek : The There. You got what you wanted. Ever since I was diagnosed as having cancer, you have done Death of everything conceivable to pre- cipitate my death. I was not alone in recognizing what you were doing. What you Hulll~hrvA did--desertion and abandonment Ann and subsequent harrassment of a dying woman--is so unspeakble there are no words to describe -1 the horror of it. and the Yet you know. And others know too. You will have to live with this untiol you die. Truth About, 1 May you never, ever forget. Euthanasia This is the actual suicide letter left by Ann Humphry. The hand- written note was added by Ann to a copy sent to Rita Marker, author of this book. The letter itself was addressed to Ann's husband, Derek Humphry, co-founder of the Hemlock Society and author of the number-one best-seller Rnal Exit. - '1 MAR 1 t RITA MARKER ISBN 0-688-12223-3 8 ,'\- IF " ISBN 0-688-12221-3 FPT $18.00 wtinuedfiomfiotatjap) ,, Tack Kevorkian. who has written article advocating medical experiments on death row prisoners -while they are still alive. An( she explains the ramifications of euthanasia course is not the same as giving in a country without adequate health insur- doctors the right to kill ance, like America, where people who really their patients on demand. want to live might choose death rather than bankrupt their families. Deadly Compassion is essential reading for anyone who has misgivings about giving DEADLY COMPASSION doctors the right to kill. -
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Why Physicians Should Oppose It
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Why Physicians Should Oppose It Joseph E. Marine, MD, MBA Division of Cardiology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine February 2, 2018 Disclosures • No relevant financial disclosures • I am a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, and the Baltimore City Medical Society • All of these organizations oppose legalization of physician-assisted suicide and all other forms of euthanasia • There are no drugs or devices that have been approved by the US FDA for physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia Some Definitions • Physician-Assisted Suicide: A form of euthanasia (“good death) where a physician provides the means (such as a lethal drug prescription) for a patient to end his/her own life • Synonyms/ Euphemisms: • Physician/doctor-assisted death • Death with Dignity • End-of-Life Option • (Medical) Aid-in-Dying • includes euthanasia by lethal injection in Canada • Usual drugs used: 90-100 x 100 mg secobarbital tabs dissolved in liquid and swallowed quickly • Antiemetic premed usually given to prevent vomiting PAS/Euthanasia: Background • Mid-1800s – increasing medical use of morphine and chloroform anesthesia leads to proposals to use to hasten death for patients with advanced illnesses • 1906: Euthanasia law proposed in Ohio state legislature, voted down 79-23 • 1920s-1930s: Public support for euthanasia increases in USA, though not legally adopted • 1939-1945: WWII, Nuremberg trials Euthanasia in post-war era • 1945-1980: Little activity • 1980: Derek Humphry, a British journalist, founds Hemlock Society to promote euthanasia and assisted suicide for patients with advanced illness • 1992: Publication of Final Exit • 2003-4: Hemlock Society becomes Compassion and Choices Dr. -
Assisted Suicide
STRIPLING, A QUESTION OF MERCY, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. 1 (2015) A Question of Mercy: Contrasting Current and Past Perspectives on Physician- Assisted Suicide Mahala Yates Stripling, Ph.D. Keywords: right to die, assisted suicide The right-to-die debate was cast into the spotlight on November 1, 2014, when Brittany Maynard, a beautiful young California woman, took her own life by a doctor- prescribed lethal dose. Maynard, in her October 7, 2014, CNN article, “My Right to Death with Dignity at 29,” describes what led up to this decision. 2 Married just over a year, she and her husband were trying for a family. However, after months of suffering from debilitating headaches, she learned on New Year’s Day that she had brain cancer. “Our lives devolved into hospital stays, doctor consultations, and medical research,” she states in her article. Nine days after the diagnosis, she had a disfiguring partial craniotomy and partial resection of her temporal lobe to stop the growth of the tumor. When her aggressive tumor came back three months later, she was given a prognosis of six months to live. She opted out of full brain radiation that would leave her scalp covered with first-degree burns. “My quality of life, as I knew it, would be gone,” she admits in the CNN article. She ruled out hospice care because medication would not relieve her pain or forestall personality changes, including verbal, cognitive, and motor loss. Withholding treatment or removing life support—decisions made in America every day—were not an option for her. Whatever life she had left in her strong young body was mitigated by a deteriorating brain. -
Death with Dignity a Community Service Research Project Designed by Rutgers Jrs
Death with Dignity A community service research project designed by Rutgers Jrs. and Srs. to gain perspective on Euthanasia opinions at Rutgers University. Tag words: Euthanasia, Right to die, Physician assisted suicide, Terminally ill Authors: Cynthia Bengel, Olga Ivey, Arthur Omondi with Julie M. Fagan, Ph.D. Summary The group has been looking at the issue of euthanasia and whether it should be legalized in the state of NJ. Research was done on the history of euthanasia and on current global legislation. The service project was centered on doing a survey of the Rutgers University students to determine their views on the subject. A total of 273 students participated in the survey. 53.9% of respondents disagreed with the statement that euthanasia is always morally wrong. 49.8 % of the respondents disagreed with the statement that euthanasia should be illegal at least under all circumstances. 69.2 % of respondents agreed that the principal moral consideration about euthanasia is the question of whether the person freely chooses to die or not. Finally, 48.4 % of the respondents disagreed that actively killing someone is always morally worse than just letting them die. The results of this survey indicate that the student body is evenly divided between pro and anti euthanasia with a significant number being neutral on the subject. The Issue: Euthanasia The History of Euthanasia Euthanasia is a term derived from the Greek words Eu meaning “good” or “easy” and Thanatos meaning “death”. This term was used by Suetonius, a historian of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century AD. Euthanasia is also known as Mercy Killing or Assisted Suicide depending upon the circumstances. -
Thesis Reference
Thesis L'assistance au décès à l'aube du XXIème siècle BURKHARDT, Sandra Esther Abstract L'assistance au suicide est un sujet qui suscite de nombreuses discussions actuellement, que ce soit dans les milieux juridique, éthique ou médical, mais également au sein de la population générale. La pratique du suicide assisté en Suisse, sous sa forme médicalisée, est en pleine évolution, avec notamment la naissance de groupes de travail chargés de définir les modalités de la prise en charge de telles demandes dans divers établissements hospitaliers. Pendant longtemps, cette activité a été exercée dans le silence, et la tendance aujourd'hui est à la transparence et l'officialisation de ce type de démarche. En effet, le suicide assisté est implicitement autorisé en Suisse, selon l'article 115 du Code Pénal, pour autant qu'il ne soit pas lié à un motif égoïste, que la personne accompagnatrice soit de profession médicale ou non. Le suicide assisté est un sujet qui a été peu exploré jusqu'à présent, au niveau médico-légal (par le nombre restreint de cas déclarés), et ce n'est que depuis le début des années 2000 que la prise en charge médico-légale et juridique de ces cas, qui [...] Reference BURKHARDT, Sandra Esther. L'assistance au décès à l'aube du XXIème siècle. Thèse de privat-docent : Univ. Genève, 2011 DOI : 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:14584 Available at: http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:14584 Disclaimer: layout of this document may differ from the published version. 1 / 1 Université de Genève Département de Médecine Faculté de Médecine Communautaire et Premier Recours Professeur J.-M. -
Rapporti ISTISAN 08/44 Istituto Superiore Di Sanità Cronache Di Bioetica 2008: Fatti, Persone, Interpretazioni in Italia E Nel Mondo
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ Cronache di bioetica 2008: fatti, persone, interpretazioni in Italia e nel mondo Carlo Petrini Unità di Bioetica, Presidenza ISSN 1123-3117 Rapporti ISTISAN 08/44 Istituto Superiore di Sanità Cronache di bioetica 2008: fatti, persone, interpretazioni in Italia e nel mondo. Carlo Petrini 2008, iii, 157 p. Rapporti ISTISAN 08/44 Sono descritti in ordine cronologico eventi rilevanti per la bioetica avvenuti in Italia e in altre Nazioni nell’anno 2008. Gli eventi riguardano innanzi tutto il vasto spettro dei temi di etica delle scienze della vita: la procreazione, la nascita, la salute, la genetica, le biotecnologie, la sperimentazione clinica, i farmaci, la malattia, la morte, e molti altri. Sono inoltre presenti temi di management, di politica sanitaria, di gestione dei servizi sanitari, di legislazione. Un ulteriore genere di argomenti è riconducibile ad aspetti più teorici, come il dibattito sui valori e sui principi. Parole chiave: Bioetica, Biomedicina, Nascita, Salute, malattia, Sanità pubblica, Morte Istituto Superiore di Sanità Bioethics accounts 2008: facts, persons, interpretations in Italy and in the world. Carlo Petrini 2008, iii, 157 p. Rapporti ISTISAN 08/44 (in Italian) A description in chronological order is given of relevant events for bioethics which have taken place in Italy and in other countries during the year 2008. The events concern first of all the broad spectrum of ethics-related topics in life sciences: procreation, birth, health, genetics, biotechnologies, clinical experimentation, drugs, disease and death, to mention but a few. The other topics presented include management, health policies, health service management and law-making activities. Another set of topics is associated with more theoretical aspects such as the debate on values and principles.