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| | Right to die - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Most often, the idea of the right to die is related to a person's wish that caregivers allow death—for example, by not providing life support or vital medication— under certain conditions when recovery is highly unlikely or impossible. | | | The term "right to die" refers to various issues around the death of an individual when that person could continue to live with the aid of life support, or in a diminished or enfeebled capacity. | | | Usually these patients have also made explicit their wish to receive only palliative care to reduce pain and suffering. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_die
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| | The Right to Die |
| | One consequence of this decision was a provision that requires the patient to be examined by a mental health professional to determine whether the wish to die might be the product of an emotional condition that could be treated by other means. | | | To many who oppose physician-assisted suicide, the idea of a medical doctor helping a patient die is inimical to medicine's central concern, the preservation of life. | | | Wanzer points out that patients have an absolute right to decline treatment, a principle that has been clearly substantiated by the courts. |
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/06.06/TheRighttoDie.html
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| | Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death: Moral Debates-- Euthanasia |
| | Patients have the right to know their condition, to choose or to reject the treatment regimen, to choose or to reject attempts to prolong their life, and to decide fully as to the disposal of their remains. | | | Dying patients' basic human rights are seen to be violated when they lack the knowledge and power to make decisions which, in turn, diminishes dignity. | | | Since the greatest change was in approval of the moral right of the terminally ill to commit suicide, let's examine the relationship between attitudes toward euthanasia and abortion among those who do and do not approve of suicide and how this has changed over time. |
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http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/dtheuth.html
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| | Whose Right to Die? |
| | “The emergent right to receive medical assistance in hastening one's death [is an] inevitable consequence of changes in the causes of death, advances in medical science, and the development of new technologies. | | | The question is not about whether intervention is right for this or that particular patient. | | | This does not mean we deny that in exceptional cases interventions are appropriate, as acts of desperation when all other elements of treatment — all medications, surgical procedures, psychotherapy, spiritual care, and so on — have been tried. |
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http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/euthanasia/eu0007.html
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| | Blogcritics.org: More on Euthanasia and the Right to Die |
| | There is no indication, however indirect, that the patient wishes or would have wished to die had he been capable of expression but the patient is no longer a "person" and, therefore, has no interests to respect, observe, and protect. | | | The right to life - at least as far as human beings are concerned - is a rarely questioned fundamental moral principle. | | | It overrules the right to one's body, to comfort, to the avoidance of pain, or to ownership of property. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/02/100825.php
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| | Right To Die |
| | However, as I have seen with AIDS, cancer, and ALS, patients should have a right to choose to die with dignity. | | | but rather an advocate of an individual's right to self-determination. | | | smothering the patient to carry out his wish to die. |
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http://www.denverpsychotherapy.com/RightToDie.html
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| | Article 3: Right to Die |
| | On the one hand, there is a unanimity in declaring the act as an irrational behavior that human beings should not commit; on the other, their interpretation of the act being committed under situations a person is unable to cope with, indicates a factual, even condoning attitude toward suicide. | | | In other words, enforcing the existing prohibition against allowing the patient to die could prove to be detrimental in certain situations, and a departure from it may be the only way of attaining a fair solution to a particular problem. | | | Pain relief treatment, which could shorten life, but which is administered to relieve physical pain and psychological distress and not to kill, is permitted in Islamic law simply because the motive is regarded as a sufficient justification, protecting the physician against criminal or other liability in such circumstances. |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~aas/article/article3.htm
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| | "Right to die" -- Grayling 330 (7495): 799 -- BMJ |
| | Bad legislative interpretations of the “right to life” and the “right to death” could threaten the basic philosophy of palliative care. | | | of their own right to die—for example, in a living will. | | | Right to life: Is it different in developing countries |
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http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7495/799?ehom
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| | Online NewsHour: Assisted Suicide -- June 26, 1997 |
| | DENNIS VACCO: Well, I think that the message is that they need to continue to be very aggressive in treating pain but be very careful not to kill the patient in the process; that their objective needs to be to alleviate the pain. | | | This is where the debate now belongs, in the legislatures, and I think that if we keep it in the legislative process, that it's going to be more focused on treatment of pain and less focused on this notion of rights to die and similar issues. | | | And there is, indeed, a distinction between letting someone die and making someone die, and physicians need to be very careful on that regard. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/june97/suicide_6-26.html
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| | (DV) Mickey Z: The Million Dollar Interview |
| | Almost everyone instinctively felt that "rights" was simply the wrong lens through which to view the disability situation. | | | MJ: This is a theme I seem to return to over and over, for it is very painful for me-and for most of the disability activists I know-to realize that progressives are rarely any better on our issues than conservatives, and sometimes actually much worse. | | | Attorney Diane Coleman, founder of Not Dead Yet says: “Many of our allies in the civil rights and health care movements have found this hard to understand. |
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http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar05/MickeyZ0302.htm
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| | Testimony-U.S. House-APRIL 29, 1996 |
| | Although proponents of assisted suicide often emphasize its rationality, suicidologists tell us there is always a powerful emotional force and the pain of unmet needs underlying the desire to die. | | | Oregon's attempt to ration healthcare based on "quality of life" judgments (judgments made by nondisabled people) demonstrated how quickly the deck can be stacked against the lives of people with costly conditions. | | | The assertion that people with disabilities are not threatened by physician-assisted suicide is false, based on virtually every court precedent to date, as well as actual practice in our culture today. |
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http://www.notdeadyet.org/docs/house1.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: Anatomy of right-to-die law |
| | This right is about supporting an individual's right to make choices along the life continuum in the context of their values, their beliefs, and their situations. | | | In the end, Gov. Bob Martinez vetoed the landmark legislation, in part because he was "concerned about the complexity of the human condition in the circumstances covered by the legislation, and the medical, ethical, social and technological advances which relate to this subject." | | | The judges found the state's interest in preserving life, preventing suicide and upholding the integrity of the medical profession outweighed the privacy rights of 35-year-old AIDS sufferer Charles Hall. |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46792
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| | Right to Die: Overview |
| | There's also extensive precedent for allowing family members to decide whether to continue treatment or end feeding when an incapacitated patient is no longer able to decide for themselves -- but as the Terri Schiavo case showed, even that debate is not settled. | | | Those patients may find their wishes and those of their families overlooked as physicians juggle medical, legal and moral considerations. | | | Now technology has created choices for dying patients and their families, choices that raise basic questions about human dignity and what constitutes a "good death." |
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http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/overview.cfm?issue_type=right2die
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| | Right To Die |
| | Since December 1991, the federal Patient Self-Determination Act has mandated that health care facilities inform patients, on or before admission, of their right to make decisions in their medical care, including the right to refuse medical or surgical treatment and the right to formulate advance directives. | | | During the 1980s, the personal horror stories of people in a persistent vegetative state being forced to remain on life support machines against their previously expressed will, caused a reassessment of our right to refuse certain medical procedures. | | | Yet, so many do not acknowledge this fact until it is too late. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~robwrites/id8.html
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| | DO WE HAVE THE “RIGHT TO DIE?” |
| | Doctors who supported the parents in the court battle said she was incapable of reacting or relating to her environment and could experience no thoughts or emotions. | | | Other illustrations could be given, but these are sufficient to prove our point: Medical science is fallible and finite and is often wrong, and it is crucial to remember this when considering the euthanasia issue. | | | Our point here is that great caution must be exercised in these matters, and hasty decisions must be avoided regarding the nature of “brain death.” We must understand that medical science does not hold all the answers. |
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http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/rightdie.htm
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| | Do we have the right to die? |
| | Grave physical handicap which is so restricting that the individual cannot, even after due consideration, counseling and re-training, tolerate such a limited existence. | | | So the right-to-die movement should fight to legalize what is best for the patient - both methods - and make no concessions to the religious right. | | | Those doctors who are ethically opposed to hastening the end of life just don't do it. |
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http://www.near-death.com/experiences/suicide11.html
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| | Ethics Updates.-, Euthanasia and end-of-life decisions |
| | Rights Theory Religion and Ethics Ethical RelativismGender Theory Race Theory Rights Theory IntroductionAnti-Theory | | | Making Choices and Taking Charge (New York: W. Norton, 1993), Timothy E. Quill, M.D. argues, at least in part on the basis of his experience as a hospice director, in favor of physician-assisted euthanasia; for an interesting contrast, see Euthanasia Is Not the Answer: A Hospice Physician's View, by David Cundiff. | | | "Before I Die: Medical Care and Personal Choices" |
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http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Euthanasia
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| | The right to die |
| | In Cruzan, the Court considered whether Missouri could insist on proof by "clear and convincing evidence" of a comatose patient's desire to terminate her life before allowing her family's wish to disconnect her feeding tube to be carried out. | | | The Cruzan decision spurred considerable evidence in "living wills" which clearly express an individuals desire to discontinue treatment or feeding in specified circumstances. | | | Why would persons in great pain, or who are severely depressed, also have such a right? |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/righttodie.htm
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| | Right to Die - a Catholic view |
| | The "right to die" is based, rather, on the idea of life as a "thing we possess" and may discard when it no longer meets our satisfaction. | | | "Right to die" thinking says there is such a thing as a "life not worth living." For a Christian, however, life is worthy in and of itself, and not because it meets certain criteria that we or others set. | | | Some see the "right to die" as parallel to the "right to life." In fact, however, they are opposite. |
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http://www.priestsforlife.org/euthanasia/freedomtodie.html
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| | "This has nothing to do with the sanctity of life" Salon.com |
| | The decision on whether to allow Terri Schiavo to die has sparked endless controversy over what is legal and ethical when patients are unable to make their own wishes. | | | The United States Supreme Court ruled that competent patients have the right to decline any and all unwanted treatment, and unconscious patients have the same right, depending upon the evidentiary standard established by the state. | | | Of course, the family has the radical, antiabortion, right-to-life Christian right, with its apparently unlimited resources and political muscle, behind them. |
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http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/03/22/father_john/index.html
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| | Right to Die |
| | Proponents of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia often use the phrase in an attempt to justify these practices. | | | The Supreme Court did, however, maintain that medical treatment for which informed consent has not been granted constitutes "battery." Thus, while there is no constitutionally protected right to die, there is a constitutionally protected right to refuse medical treatment even if that refusal hastens death. | | | The claim that persons have a legal or moral right to die when and how they choose. |
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http://www.ascensionhealth.org/ethics/public/issues/right_die.asp
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| | Technorati Tag: Right to die |
| | Find Article on the Right to Die Here Author Fred Lykes has written a thought-provoking and persuasive article defending the practice of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. | | | A tag is like a subject or category. | | | The Right to Die Book Buy the Right to Die Book at SHOP.COM. |
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http://technorati.com/tag/Right+to+die
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| | Right-to-die politics |
| | None of the physicians who have examined her hold out hope for improvement or detect any consciousness on her part of her environment. | | | Schiavo is not a disabled person who wants to live and needs the assistance of supportive people and medical technology. | | | Actually, the existing system has worked well, despite intense meddling by politicians and religious groups. |
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050329/OPINION01/503290347/1055/OPINION
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| | Online NewsHour: Right To Die? -- November 24, 1998 |
| | DR. GREG HAMILTON, Right-To-Die Opponent: It doesn't follow any of the standards of medical procedures. | | | It doesn't make any sense to be monitoring their blood pressure, because when people die, their blood pressure drops and falls. | | | LEE HOCHBERG: Like most of those who've sought an end to their lives, Green has cancer. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec98/suicide_11-24.html
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| | KQED Forum: Right to Die Legislation |
| | Ben Rich, associate professor of bioethics at UC Davis School of Medicine | | | For more information, please see our privacy policy. | | | Marilyn Golden, policy analyst at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) in Berkeley |
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http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R502250900
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Lords debate right-to-die plans |
| | I think the best person to make a decision on the value of their life is the person who is suffering terribly | | | Peers have been debating whether doctors should be allowed to help some terminally-ill people to die. | | | He said just having the prescription would take the pressure off patients. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4325446.stm
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| | Raising Yousuf: a diary of a mother under occupation: The right to die |
| | I agree with Richard that Laila has the full right to write about anything she likes - especially about herself, her own interests, and her own experiences. | | | I have spoken to Palestinian families in Gaza whose loved ones died wiating to get medical treatment, and others here in Cairo that who were unable to transport the bodies of their recently deceased relatives to be buried with dignity in their homeland, in Gaza. | | | Instead of fatuously trying to get her to reveal some opinion that you'd only use against her should she speak it--get yourself your own blog (if you don't already have one) & spout all you want about whatever you want. |
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http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/2005/09/right-to-die.html
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| | terry schiavo |
| | This case is not about the right of a terminally ill person to refuse useless life-prolonging treatment. | | | They say that Terri is in persistent vegetative state, that she has no hope of meaningful life, and that she should be allowed to die. | | | Those close to her believe that she is now making every effort to communicate that she does not want to die. |
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| | Washington v. Glucksberg, 117 S.Ct. 2258, 138 L.Ed.2d 772 (1997). |
| | This asserted right has no place in our Nation's traditions, given the country's consistent, almost universal, and continuing rejection of the right, even for terminally ill, mentally competent adults. | | | Respondents' contention that the asserted interest is consistent with this Court's substantive due process cases, if not with this Nation's history and practice, is unpersuasive. | | | The Court's established method of substantive due process analysis has two primary features: First, the Court has regularly observed that the Clause specially protects those fundamental rights and liberties which are, objectively, deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition. |
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http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/96-110.ZS.html
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| | The Right to Die - New York Times |
| | But the Supreme Court should make clear that Oregon, and all states, have the right to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with a maximum of dignity and a minimum of pain. | | | The Oregon law allows terminally ill people who are likely to die within six months to receive drugs to end their lives. | | | But the Court of Appeals was right to resolve it more simply, through a careful interpretation of the Controlled Substances Act. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/opinion/05wed2.html?ex=1286164800&en=577969b27d884929&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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| | BBC NEWS Americas Extension in US right-to-die case |
| | But her parents have argued that her condition could improve and want her husband to be removed as her legal guardian. | | | Her husband, Michael Schiavo, has argued for her to be allowed to die, saying she would not wish to be left alive in her current condition. | | | Some doctors say that Ms Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state since she collapsed in 1990, following a heart attack and severe brain damage. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4289323.stm
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| | Right to Die course |
| | This treatment of death is recent," she said. | | | Katherine Chan '06, right, makes a point, while Javier Sullivan '04, left, and Laura Obijuru '04 take note. | | | The class then questioned suicide laws, society's right to keep a person alive and what it means "to play God." |
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http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/11.20.03/death_course.html
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| | World Federation of Right to Die Societies: home |
| | In Japan, a national debate over euthanasia has been sparked by a doctor who's confessed to helping a number of terminally ill patients to die. | | | Doctors can do this in Japan, as long as certain criteria are met. | | | The Federation provides an international link for organisations working to secure or protect the rights of individuals to self-determination at the end of their lives. |
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http://www.worldrtd.net
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| | right-to-die |
| | asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipd/A0627968.html
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| | Right to DIe WebQuest |
| | You have all learned about a different part of Right to DIe. | | | As a member of the group you will explore Webpages from people all over the world who care about Right to DIe. | | | Be free to look all the links to learn more about the right to die. |
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http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/webrighttoel.html
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| | Whose right to die? |
| | Death would come in one to two weeks without pain, hunger or thirst. | | | How is denying food and water to these patients different from denying food and water to others who rely on us for sustenance -- for example, babies, prisoners, quadriplegics, the severely retarded? | | | Do we have the right to deny a helpless human being the basics of food and water, knowing that they will die without it? |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/06/01/ED96180.DTL
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| | The Right to Die |
| | If she wanted to die, he shouldn't have been seeking money to care for her. | | | Terri Schiavo makes a lousy test case for right-to-die law, since very few people think that the word of a slimy guy like Michael Schiavo should suffice as proof of a patient's wish not to have life-prolonging treatment in the event of severe disability. | | | He should divorce her, and let the people who brought her into the world help her through her last years, rather than putting her into a morgue for 15 years. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1363521/posts
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| | The Seattle Times: Nation & World: As governor, Bush signed right-to-die law |
| | The White House said yesterday that Bush's position is consistent, and that the Texas bill focused on expanding the rights of the critically ill and their families to prevent hospitals and doctors from denying life-saving treatment. | | | Bush spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters that Bush vetoed 1997 legislation that would have put into law Texas hospital policies that gave families virtually no protections and as little as 72 hours to find alternative care after a hospital decided to stop treatment. |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002215324_texaslaw22.html
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| | Bad Attitudes: Right to Die |
| | It is the right to commit suicide, which should be inviolate. | | | If the state wants to keep its hands technically clean, toss a rope in his cell and walk away. |
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http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/002564.html
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| | Right to Die (1987) (TV) |
| | The woman had basically become a prisoner inside her own body and she wanted to die. | | | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it | | | This movie had a serious impact on my life back in 1987. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093862
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| | Whose Right to Die? |
| | The Atlantic Monthly; March 1997; Whose Right to Die?; Volume 279, No. 3; 73-79 | | | Copyright © 1997 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. |
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http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97mar/emanuel/emanuel.htm
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| | Goals tagged "right to die" on 43 Things |
| | Goals tagged "right to die" on 43 Things | | | State guardians laud Schiavo for fulfilling Terri's wish to die | | | Write a will for the case of being in a persistent vegetative state 0 people |
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http://www.43things.com/tag/right+to+die
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