Euthanasia
Euthanasia | Dying Patients Should Have Access to Both Hospice Care and Assisted Suicide
In the following viewpoint, Timothy E. Quill, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester in New York, argues that dying patients should have access to physician-assisted death when hospice care fails. Hospice care can be extremely effective, he maintains, but it cannot always relieve a patient’s suffering. Quill believes that in these rare instances when hospice care fails, doctors and patients should be able to discuss assisted suicide without fear of legal sanction. The author acknowledges some of potential dangers of legalizing assisted suicide, but also contends that...
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- Introduction
- Table of Contents
- Should Voluntary Euthanasia Be Legalized?
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Would Legalizing Euthanasia Lead to Involuntary Killing?
- Chapter 3 Preface
- Legalizing Euthanasia Would Lead to Involuntary Killing
- Legalizing Voluntary Euthanasia Would Threaten the Disabled
- Legalizing Voluntary Euthanasia Would not Threaten the Disabled
- Safegurads Cannot Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
- Safeguards Can Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
- Periodical Bibliography
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Should Physicians Assist in Suicide?
- Chapter 4 Preface
- Assisted Suicide is an Ethically Acceptable Practice for Physicians
- Assisted Suicide is not an Ethically Acceptable Practice for Physicians
- Physicians Should be Legally Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physicians Should not be Legally Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Periodical Bibliography
- For Further Discussion
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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