Assisted suicide law in Oregon

Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon: a medical perspective.

This Article examines the Oregon Death with Dignity Act from a medical perspective. Drawing on case studies and information provided by doctors, families, and other care givers, it finds that seemingly reasonable safeguards for the care and protection of terminally ill patients written into the Oregon law are being circumvented. The problem lies primarily with the Oregon Public Health Division ...

Physician assisted suicide under Jewish law.

Appeal court upholds Oregon's assisted suicide law.

not statistically significant. Women who took ibuprofen also had a lower risk of breast cancer than control patients, but the reduction was less than in women taking aspirin. Paracetamol had no effect. Aspirin reduced the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women and postmenopausal women, but the effect was more pronounced in postmenopausal women because there were more of them in the study....

Ethical Effects of the Reception of Assisted Suicide in Iranian Law

Background and aim: Today, the topic of Euthanasia and one of its variants, it means assisted suicide, has caused a lot of controversy in the legal circles of the world. Assisted suicide is used as a way to end the natural life of incurable patients. This article seeks to investigate the ethical effects of assisted suicide by a consequentialist approach in Iranian law. Method: This article tha...

Last rights? Confronting physician-assisted suicide in law and society: legal liturgies on physician-assisted suicide.

and the Director of the Center for Law and Aging at Stetson. ** Dr. D. Dixon Sutherland is a Professor of Religious Studies at Stetson University and the Director of the Institute for Christian Ethics. 1. The term of art for this has been dubbed by the popular press as physicianassisted suicide (PAS). However, describing the requested act as a suicide has added confusion to the debate over PAS,...