Doctor Assisted Suicide
por April Alllison
1. PAS the doctor only prescribes the dosage.
2. The AMA "strongly opposes any bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide" because the practice is "fundamentally inconsistent with the physician's role as healer."
3. it protects people who do not want to suffer lingering, painful deaths it is in keeping with respect for patient autonomy it is defensible as policy because it respects social diversity it protects against physician paternalism and unwanted treatment it protects against debilitating conditions not easily managed by medicine the state has no interesting in forcing the prolongation of life of someone in pain who wants to die
4. How Is it being portrayed in the media? When did it become a topic of debate?
4.1. The first such bill introduced in the United StatesThe first such bill introduced in the United States was in 1905
4.2. ethical debate
4.3. Kevorkian
5. Where is it legal? What are the laws?
5.1. A terminally ill patient is defined as someone with six months or less to live. The patient’s terminal diagnosis and mental competency must be attested to by two doctors. Patients would have to make a request to their doctor twice orally and once in writing. The written request would have to be witnessed. A terminally ill patient is defined as someone with six months or less to live. The patient’s terminal diagnosis and mental competency must be attested to by two doctors. Patients would have to make a request to their doctor twice orally and once in writing. The written request would have to be witnessed.
5.2. Montana, Washington, oregon
5.3. Supreme Court Decisions
5.3.1. Vacco v. Quill and Gregoire v. Glucksberg. In those cases, the court determined that there was no Constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, either on the groundsVacco v. Quill and Gregoire v. Glucksberg. In those cases, the court determined that there was no Constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, either on the grounds of equal protection or personal liberty. of equal protection or personal liberty.
5.3.2. the Court concluded that while there was no Constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the states of the Union could decide the matter for themselves.