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Physician-assisted suicide and the states.Focuses on assisted suicide in the United States with emphasis on its effect on the states. Debate created by assisted suicide; Information on Doctor Jack Kavorkian, who provided assistance in approximately 44 suicides since 1990; Effects of the lack of ...
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Dr. Candi Cann is a scholar and public intellectual who specializes in the fields of death, dying, and grief. Dr. Cann has written several books and articles on these topics and participated in many interviews and webinars. She is available for speeches
Nitrogen is not used in states where medically assisted dying is legal; those patients, who are terminally ill, usually drink a huge dose of barbiturates. Article content Veterinary experts generally do not recommend nitrogen or other inert gases for euthanizing mammals. Respons...
Nevertheless, defenders of states' rights were concerned that a powerful, consolidated national government would run roughshod over the states. With ratification of the Constitution in doubt, the Framers promised to add protection for the states. Accordingly, theTenth Amendmentwas added to the Constitu...
The patient must be terminally ill to qualify for voluntary physician-assisted suicide, but in the eyes of the non-terminal patients with no physical means to end their life, the ending of their pain through PAS may be worth their death; at what point is the medical staff disregarding a ...
All states experienced a considerable reduction in probabilities of death for ages 55 to 90 years, largely associated with reductions in the probability of dying from cardiovascular diseases (Figure 5). The highest point decline was observed in California at 12.6 points, compared with lowest decline...
He takes us from early nineteenth-century deathbeds governed by religion through the medicalization of death with the physician presiding over the deathbed, to the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Unlike previous books, which have focused on law and technique as explanations for the rise ...
Most (86%) interviews were conducted face-to-face using a computer-assisted instrument and lasted an average of 2 hours 20 minutes. The remaining interviews (14%) were conducted partially or entirely by telephone. Respondents interviewed by telephone tended to be slightly more educated. No...