Assisted suicide controversy

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Label

Assisted suicide controversy

Statement of responsibility

by Richard L. Worsnop

Title variation

Should doctors help the dying to end their lives?

Creator

• Worsnop, Richard L

Subject

• Assisted suicide -- United States
• Electronic books
• Electronic bookss
• Euthanasia -- United States
• Terminal care -- Social aspects -- United States
• Right to die -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Everyone dreads dying alone, incapacitated and in excruciating pain. But should a person in such circumstances have the right to commit suicide with the help of others? The question has long stirred heated debate among religious leaders, jurists and medical ethicists. Pope John Paul II issued an encyclical letter in March strongly condemning the practice. And the U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to hear two appeals of cases challenging Michigan's law against assisted suicide. Still pending are court challenges to Oregon's law legalizing some forms of assisted suicide, approved last November as a ballot initiative. As the controversy rages, some experts are arguing that interest in assisted suicide would decline if terminally ill persons had more access to hospice care and effective pain management

Member of

• CQ researcher, V. 5, no. 17

Additional physical form

Also available in print.

Cataloging source

CQPDC

Dewey number

179/.7

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography