Physician-assisted suicide a conservative critique of intervention

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-19

  Lee, Daniel E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MORALITY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

COERCION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MORALS; OREGON; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037736468     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3527909     Document Type: Short Survey

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6. There is some data to back up Callahan's claim. The Remmelink Report, an official Dutch government study of the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands, indicates that in 1990, doctors actively killed 1,040 patients without their knowledge or consent; www.euthanasia.com/hollchart.html (accessed 25 March 2002).
7. Oregon's Death with Dignity Act Annual Report 2001, www.ohd.hr.state.or. us/chs/pas/ar.htm(accessed 25 March 2002).
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10. and M. Angell, "No Choice but to Die Alone," Washington Post, 24 February 2002.