The future of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: Beyond rights talk to informed public policy

Minnesota Law Review

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 983-

  Emanuel, Ezekiel J ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; LAW; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; POLICY; RIGHT TO DIE; SOCIAL CHANGE; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES; VACCO V. QUILL; WASHINGTON V. GLUCKSBERG;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; LEGAL APPROACH; VACCO V. QUILL; WASHINGTON V. GLUCKSBERG;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGISLATION; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS; PUBLIC POLICY; RIGHT TO DIE; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATE GOVERNMENT; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; SUPREME COURT DECISIONS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

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References (3)

1. 117 S. Ct. 2258 (1997).
2. 117 S. Ct. 2293 (1997).
3. "Physician-assisted suicide" is defined as the process whereby a physician provides the a prescription or other means to a patient with the explicit understanding and intention that the patient use the medications or other means to end his or her life. When I use the term "euthanasia" without qualification, I mean voluntary active euthanasia. Voluntary active euthanasia involves a physician administering medications or other means to end the patient's life at the patient's request and with the patient's full informed consent. The primary difference between the two is that in physician-assisted suicide the patient commits the life-ending act, whereas in euthanasia the physician or some other medical provider carries out the life-ending act. See Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Euthanasia: Historical, Ethical, and Empiric Perspectives, 154 ARCHIVES INTERNAL MED. 1890 (1994).