The weakness of the case for legalizing physician-assisted suicide

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 267-278

  Marquis, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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2. Shannon Brownlee and Joannie M. Schrof, "Effective Pain Treatments Already Exist. Why Aren't Doctors Using Them?" U. S. News and World Report, March 17, 1997, pp. 54-67.
3. Dan Brock, "Voluntary Active Euthanasia, "Hastings Center Report 22 (2) (March-April, 1992): 16.
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14. John Hardwig does not endorse this conclusion, but this is where, I think, his argument leads. See his "Is There a Duty to Die?" The Hastings Center Report 27 (2) (March-April, 1997): 34-42.
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