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Ads by Google      PCCEF.ORG - Physicians for Compassionate Care Educational Foundation Physicians for Compassionate Care (PCC) expresses on behalf of all its members profound grief for those vulnerable individuals frightened into committing assisted suicide over the past ten years when they could have received good palliative care instead. His analysis shows that the practice of assisted suicide in Oregon does not match the theory of what was expected when physician-assisted suicide was legalized in Oregon. Physicians for Compassionate Care has filed a friend of the court brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) appeal of the Oregon assisted-suicide case. http://www.pccef.org/      Physician-Assisted Suicide Physician-assisted suicide is a physician providing medication or other interventions to a patient with the understanding that the patient intends to use them to commit suicide Fifth, the physician-assisted suicide should be only carried out in a meaningful doctor patient relationship. Although assisted suicide is still illegal in the Netherlands, the courts and government have come out with a set of guidelines that when followed ensure that a physician will not be prosecuted -- in essence decriminalizing the act. http://www.amsa.org/bio/pas.cfm      EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE: ALL SIDES Physician assisted suicide helps them die under conditions and at the time that they wish. Physician Assisted Suicide: A physician supplies information and/or the means of committing suicide (e.g. Most physicians feel that suicide in such cases is not a preferred solution either; a better approach is proper management of pain through medication. http://www.religioustolerance.org/euth1.htm      Attitudes of Oregon Psychologists Toward Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Oregon Death With Dignity Act Assisted suicide will result in distrust of medical profession Those who strongly supported assisted suicide were less confident in psychologists' ability to assess the quality of life of patients than were those who endorsed a more moderate view, but more confident that one could assess whether judgment was impaired with regard to the request for assisted suicide. Whether psychologists should be involved in assisted suicide evaluations, under what circumstances, whether specialized training and/or certification should be required, and the development of a research base and technology of assessment are issues that need development at a professionwide level. http://www.apa.org/journals/pro/pro303235.html      Oregon Hospice Association President Denies Problems with Physician-Assisted Suicide Jackson stated that the state of Oregon has begun scientific research studies to evaluate the practice of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, since it is one of the few sites in the world where physician-assisted suicide has been legalized. She did say that, in her opinion, the hospices and physicians involved closely evaluated each case and provided independent physician and psychiatric evaluation to assure the appropriateness of the physician-assisted suicides/euthanasias. Jackson did not admit any possibility of wrongdoing by a hospice that might not intervene if a patient's attending physician had not prescribed adequate pain medications. http://www.hospicepatients.org/oreg-hosp-assoc.html      Hypatia--"Fatal Practices": A Feminist Analysis of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Unless one posits an afterlife, a move I am unwilling to make, there seems no meaningful way to imagine the physician as enabling the dying patient to achieve greater future autonomy, either through assisted suicide or through sedating one to unconsciousness. Setting aside the question whether all pain can be palliated (one of Kevorkian's patients was a physician, himself an expert on pain therapies), Wolf's strategy wrongly presumes that pain is the only (legitimate?) reason for patients wanting to die. Indeed, "the background realities and history of male dominance and female subjugation" (1996, 293) in medicine are likely only to exacerbate the problem of physician "paternalism," often masquerading as "beneficence." Further, an uncritical acceptance of "care" can reinscribe female subordination and neglect serious questions of fairness. http://www.iupjournals.org/hypatia/hyp14-2.html      Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical Topic in Medicine No. Physician-assisted suicide refers to the physician providing the means for death, most often with a prescription. It is argued that assisted suicide is morally wrong because it contradicts these beliefs. For example, morphine drips ostensibly used for pain relief may be a covert form of assisted death or euthanasia. http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/bioethics/topics/pas.html      Jewish Law - Articles ("Physician-Assisted Suicide Under Jewish Law") Jewish law recognizes that a physician can possibly provide information, such as a diagnosis of a patient's condition and an evaluation regarding the risks of certain treatment, that, as we will see, is relevant to some assisted-suicide issues. An "assisted suicide" suggests a suicide in which a third person either facilitates or enables a person to commit suicide. Assume, for instance, that the only way a person is willing to commit suicide is by using a special suicide device owned only by one particular physician. http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/phys-suicide.html      DHS: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act Physicians are encouraged to make patients aware of the requirement that the OHS have access to data regarding implementation of the Act. At the time of death, if contacted by the patient (beforehand) or the family, the medical certification of the death should be completed and signed by the attending physician per standard practice. When a death certificate from a patient who has received a prescription for lethal drugs is received by the OHS, a form that captures information about the physician’s knowledge of events surrounding the patient’s death may be sent to the physician. http://www.dhs.state.or.us/publichealth/chs/pas/pascdsum.cfm      KELN.org--Physician Assisted Suicide, Aging, Elder Law Research, Legal, Financial, Social, Economic Issues, Kansas Elder Law Network, Aging, Seniors, Legal, Bibliographies, Advocacy The physician-author believes that assisted suicide is an obligation of the medical profession. The contention of this article is that it is impossible in principle and practice to regulate either euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide. This note proposes that the conflict over physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia stems from differing conceptions individuals hold about the sanctity of human life. http://www.keln.org/bibs/mechler.html      Physician Assisted Suicide In the experiences I have had, people died comfortably, though it surely would have been otherwise had not the goal early on been to be aware of dying easily and naturally without suicide or physician assisted suicide. The Supreme Court decision on physician assisted suicide will, whatever the ruling if history is any indication, only increase the excitable and visceral responses of the public. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, populist exponent of physician assisted suicide, was asked in an interview by William F. Buckley Jr., whether he had read any writings of Buddhism, Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Plato, or the Bible. http://home.pacbell.net/amsec/soc1f.html      KELN.org--Bibliography: Physician-Assisted Suicide - Update, Aging, Elder Law Research, Legal, Financial, Social, Economic Issues, Kansas Elder Law Network, Aging, Seniors, Legal, Bibliographies, Advocacy He argues that there is a real need for changes in the laws regarding palliative care and pain relief, and that making changes in this area will eliminate the need for physician assisted suicide laws. This article does a good job of addressing the issues related to physician-assisted suicide and presenting both sides of the issue including due process concerns and liberty interests affected. Physician assisted-suicide is the ending of a life through the use of certain procedures, usually drugs, administered to a terminally ill person, in order to end that person's life. http://www.keln.org/bibs/hower2.html      Amazon.com: Books: Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (Reflective Bioethics) In the current debate about physician-assisted suicide, proponents argue that legalization would respect contemporary values of patient autonomy and that the practice, if legalized, would be limited in application. Most of the essays in this collection acknowledge that physician-assisted suicide would indeed constitute a change in contemporary values and that the practice might become widespread; nonetheless, they convincingly show that these propositions are not in themselves sufficient ground either to support or to oppose its legalization. Michael Teitelman, for example, maintains more narrowly that even if physician-assisted suicide is legalized, it should not be available in hospitals because its public character there would be likely to intensify the dangers of assisted suicide, which would be more controllable in other, noninstitutional settings. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415920035      Margaret P. Battin, Ph.D. "Physician-Assisted Suicide: Does the Physician have an Obligation to Help?" in Regulting How We Die: Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide, ed. She has also recently published Ethical Issues in Suicide, trade-titled The Death Debate, as well as several co-edited collections, including Drug Use in Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, and Praying for a Cure, a jointly authored volume on ethics of religious refusal of medical treatment. "Assisted Suicide: Can We Learn from Germany?," The Hastings Center Report, 22(2):44-51 (March-April 1992). http://www.med.utah.edu/ethics/Battin.htm      Should Assisted Suicide Be Only Physician Assisted? -- Faber-Langendoen and Karlawish 132 (6): 482 -- Annals of Internal Medicine Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: attitudes and experiences of oncology patients, oncologists, and the public. Byock I. Physician-assisted suicide is not an acceptable practice for physicians. Brody H. Assisting in patient suicides is an acceptable practice for physicians. http://www.annals.org/issues/v132n6/full/200003210-00010.html      Physician Assisted Suicide Let those in the ranks of the lunatic fringe who advocate assisted suicide volunteer to do the assisting while the doctors continue to do the healing. The renegade physicians engaged in all this moved, as the record shows, from making themselves complicitous in the deaths of suicides to the killing of disabled infants and to the unbidden killing of the incurably ill, the congenitally ill, the neurotic, the depressed and the old. Under this scheme the physician in effect puts the consenting patient to death, despite any pettifogging foofaraw that may be noised publicly as to whose hand wields the syringe or holds the cup. http://www.literatus.net/essay/Suicide.html      Bioethics.com - Home Although it has been a long time coming, physicians are beginning to consider the Internet an integral part of their practice... The health of test tube babies and their mothers should be tracked more closely to ensure that the growing use of assisted fertility techniques is safe, scientific and ethical advisers said... But then came the rise of preventive medicine - the idea that it was the job of the physician to search for diseases and treat them before they caused symptoms... http://www.bioethics.com      DHS CHS: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act However, we have used the term "physician-assisted suicide" rather than "Death with Dignity" to describe the provisions of this law because physician-assisted suicide is the term used by the public, and by the medical literature, to describe ending life through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose. The Death with Dignity Act legalizes physician-assisted suicide, but specifically prohibits euthanasia, where a physician or other person directly administers a medication to end another's life. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act requires that the Oregon Health Services (OHS) monitor compliance with the law, collect information about the patients and physicians who participate in legal physician-assisted suicide, and publish an annual statistical report. http://www.dhs.state.or.us/publichealth/chs/pas/pas.cfm      Assisted suicide Clinical Problems with the Performance of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands, New England Journal of Medicine, February 24, 2000 Ashcroft ruling on federally controlled substances and assisted suicide, November 2001 Oregon Health Division 2003 annual report on assisted suicide (3/04) http://www.ortl.org/suicide.htm      BMA response to physician-assisted suicide survey "As the body representing doctors in the UK, the BMA is opposed to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide because this is the view of the majority of its members. Physician-assisted suicide has been debated many times at the BMA's annual meetings and on every occasion the membership has decided against calling for a change in the law. Please send any medical news or health news press releases to: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=15295      EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE: ALL SIDES She was helped to commit suicide by a physician in violation of Canadian law. However, helping another person commit suicide is a criminal act. One exception is the state of Oregon which allows people who are terminally ill and in intractable pain to get a lethal prescription from their physician. http://www.religioustolerance.org/euthanas.htm      DHS CHS: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act Annual Report 2002 Based on physician interviews for 171 patients who died after ingesting a lethal dose of medication - Oregon, 1998-2003. Table 4 : Death with Dignity Act participant end of life care and DWDA utilization. http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/chs/pas/ar-index.cfm      ERGO - Euthanasia World Directory How voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is practiced in The Netherlands and in Switzerland. It is 192 pages of vital information about assisted suicide and euthanasia. Latest edition of the best known story on assisted suicide. http://www.finalexit.org/      Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Those who oppose the legalizing of physician-assisted death make arguments and voice fears that are formidable indeed. Nevertheless, I conclude that the stronger case rests with those who advocate the legalizing of assisted death under carefully regulated conditions. The essay that was formerly on this page has been published as a part of a chapter in a book with the title The Ethics of Assisted Death: When Life Becomes a Burden too Hard to Bear (Lima, OH: CSS Publishing Co., 1999). http://www.frontiernet.net/~kenc/asuici.htm      Euthanasia News International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Home... http://www.euthanasianews.com/      End-of-Life Care Issues Second, assisted suicide, unlike euthanasia, does not involve the ending of life by a physician, as it is the dying person himself or herself who takes the steps to end his or her life. No person who chose assisted suicide had expressed financial concerns to their doctors, nor was pain associated with the illness cited as a major factor. Further, there is serious concern that the availability of assisted suicide may create a disincentive to providing appropriate but costly medical treatments or to improving the quality and availability of palliative and hospice care. http://www.apa.org/pi/eol/arguments.html   (4977 words)      Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical Topic in Medicine No. Physician-assisted suicide refers to the physician providing the means for death, most often with a prescription. -assisted suicide (PAS) generally refers to a practice in which the physician provides a patient with a lethal dose of medication, upon the patient's request, which the patient intends to use to end his or her own life. For example, morphine drips ostensibly used for pain relief may be a covert form of assisted death or euthanasia. http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/bioethics/topics/pas.html   (1612 words)      Pitfalls of physician-assisted suicide When physician-assisted suicide is practiced, someone must decide who may commit suicide and who may not. In a country where suicide is the eighth leading cause of death, we should not be surprised at the many requests for physician-assisted suicide. Nothing is said about the right of states to allow assisted suicide or about the status of this practice in states which have no law concerning it. http://www.physiciansnews.com/commentary/997wp.html   (1257 words)      Doctor-assisted Suicide? Physician assisted suicide is fundamentally inconsistent with the physician's professional role A second study, this one an analysis of a series of consecutive deaths labeled "doctor assisted suicide", found that in 52% of the cases the patients had not given informed consent for "suicide". To those who have had to live through such an experience, the idea of doctor-assisted suicide appears to be, at first blush, a merciful alternative. http://pages.prodigy.com/DOCTORINFORM/suicide.htm   (988 words)      Assisted Suicide Sue Rodriguez did not find dignity in such a life and wished instead to circumvent such an end by requesting physician-assisted suicide at a time and in a manner of her own choosing. She determined that she would like to activate a machine that would facilitate her death, but would also like to have a physician present, in case, through some unpredictable eventuality, something went awry and she needed further aid in dying. The advances in medical science, and in particular the capacity of medical science to intervene in the natural cycle of life and death, have led also to a re-examination of many fundamental issues, including the protection Canadian society should accord to the values of sanctity of life. http://www.studyworld.com/basementpapers/sec_papers/Assisted_Suicide.html   (1010 words)

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