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30-Apr-2008 | Lawmakers approve hospital merger bill
A bill that would grant Colorado's attorney general the authority to review nonprofit hospital transactions that would result in "material change" of services was approved by the Colorado House of Representatives on Wednesday by a vote of 39-25.
By Denver Business Journal Type Article
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1-Apr-2008 | No One Dies In Pain, No One Dies Alone
Spoiler alert: You are going to die. But enough about You (actually, I'm not done with You yet, but we'll get back to that), let's talk about Compassion and Choices, because the timing and the cause are both good.
By Belltown Messenger Type Article
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14-Mar-2008 | What the Media Said about End-of-Life Care This Week
Lowey conducted a literature review, looking for references to nurse communication with caregivers of “terminally ill patient[s] whose death is expected but not fully anticipated.”
By HOSPICE NEWS NETWORK - V12, n. 10 Type Article
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2-Mar-2008 | No "suicide" label on initiative
In a victory for Washington's proposed Death With Dignity initiative, a judge on Friday refused to add the words "physician-assisted suicide" to the ballot or official voters pamphlet description.
By Seattle Times Type Article
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5-Feb-2008 | A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit
Brody cites the story of her high school biology teacher, who at 94 asks her to help him hasten his death. She abstains, but contemplates why someone could not take life-ending medication to peacefully achieve an end to suffering. She thinks about her mother, who attempted to hasten her death without the aid of a physician. Her mother’s life was saved, but Brody asks herself, saved for what? And she cites Dr. Timothy Quill’s experience, who wrote about his role in his father’s experience with aid in dying.
By New York Times Type Article
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24-Jan-2008 | Marchers urge change to permit right to die
David Thomas, 74, remembers the pain of his mother, the desperation with which she wished for death - a relief that didn't come soon enough.
By Arizona Republic Type Article
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10-Jan-2008 | Judging the dying: Oregon's experience
Assisted suicide for the terminally ill is humane and, as Oregon has demonstrated, can be administered in a civilized way. It provides a choice that is actually taken by fewer than two dying people per thousand, but for them it solves a terrible problem. The people who used Oregon's law in 2006 — 46 did so — were very ill. Forty had terminal cancer and most of the rest had Lou Gehrig's disease. They were people who were losing control over their motions and bodily functions; some of them were in great pain. They were not ending their lives on a whim.
By Seattle Times Type Article
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1-Dec-2007 | Exempla sale foes warn of impact
Comprehensive women's health care will no longer be available in Jefferson County next year if full ownership of Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge is transferred as planned to a Catholic health organization, critics of the plan charged Friday and Saturday.
By Denver Post Type Article
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5-Nov-2007 | Editorial: We should follow Oregon's
Most Californians believe their state compares favorably with their meteorologically challenged neighbor to the north.
By The Mercury News Type Article
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2-Nov-2007 | Death in the Family
Booth Gardner, a former governor of Washington State who has Parkinson's, is urgently lobbying for a doctor-assisted-suicide law. His son is among those fighting him every step of the way.
By New York Times Magazine Type Article
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24-Oct-2007 | Oregon's Death With Dignity Law Turns 10
Ten years ago this week, Oregon became the first state in the nation to legalize physician assisted suicide.
By Oregon Public Broadcasting Type Article
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21-Oct-2007 | Death with dignity: a 10-year retrospective
Ten years ago, on Oct. 27, federal courts lifted the injunction against the Death with Dignity Act. A few days later Oregonians went to the polls to overwhelmingly reject the law's repeal.
By Mail Tribune Type Article
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1-Oct-2007 | Legal physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the
Where assisted dying is already legal, there is no current evidence for the claim that legalised PAS or euthanasia will have disproportionate impact on patients in vulnerable groups. Those who received physician-assisted dying in the jurisdictions studied appeared to enjoy comparative social, economic, educational, professional and other privileges.
By Journal of Medical Ethics Type Academic Journal
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21-Sep-2007 | Was John Paul II Euthanized?
In a provocative article, an Italian medical professor argues that Pope John Paul II didn't just simply slip away as his weakness and illness overtook him in April 2005. Intensive care specialist Dr. Lina Pavanelli has concluded that the ailing Pope's April 2 death was caused by what the Catholic Church itself would consider euthanasia.
By Time Type Article
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17-Jul-2007 | Living to the End
Welcome to Living to the End, a special series by the Oregonian featuring Lovelle Svart, who shared through online videos the struggle and choices of her final months. You can read about this series, go straight to the introduction video, or use the menu at the right to watch video entries.
By The Oregonian Type Article
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5-Jun-2007 | Dr. Kevorkian’s Wrong Way
Dr. Jack Kevorkian — a k a “Doctor Death” for helping chronically ill and terminally ill patients commit suicide — has emerged from prison as deluded and unrepentant as ever.
By New York Times Type Article
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29-May-2007 | Americans still split on doctor-assisted suicide
NEW YORK - More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds.
By MSNBC Type Poll
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18-May-2007 | Ex-governor seeking death with dignity
From the podium, he could see everyone, though his balance wavered. He wondered if he might fall in front of the audience, or if his voice would betray him and vanish into a whisper, as it often did.
By Seattle Post-Intelligencer Type Article
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18-Apr-2007 | THE SEMANTICS OF SUICIDE, AID IN DYING
Ben Dolin sighs deeply as he recalls the promise he made his wife, Eva, on her deathbed. “I told her I wouldn’t let her suffer,” he says, pausing to collect himself. A thoughtful man of 77, with pale-blue eyes and a powerful, resonant voice that belies his age, Ben has hardly any regrets from his 45 years of marriage to Eva. Just one: “To this day I feel that I failed her. She asked me to end her suffering, and I couldn’t.”
By LA Weekly Type Article
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14-Feb-2007 | Physician-Assisted Death
Suffering near the end of life arises from many sources including relentless pain, depression, loss of sense of self, loss of control and dignity, fear of the future, and/or fear of being a burden upon others. A primary goal of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is to promote the development, use, and availability of palliative care to relieve patient suffering and to enhance quality of life while upholding respect for patients' and families' values and goals.
By AAHPM Type Academic Journal
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8-Feb-2007 | Values Play Into Treatment Recommendations, Study Finds
Many doctors believe they have the right not to tell patients about treatments that they object to on moral or religious grounds and to refuse to refer patients elsewhere for the care, according to the first study to examine physicians' views on such situations.
By Washington Post Type Article
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8-Feb-2007 | Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices
There is a heated debate about whether health professionals may refuse to provide treatments to which they object on moral grounds. It is important to understand how physicians think about their ethical rights and obligations when such conflicts emerge in clinical practice.
By New England Journal of Medicine Type Academic Journal
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10-Oct-2006 | The Last Word on the Last Breath
Who decides whether to resuscitate a dying patient? The doctor? The family? The law is often unclear.
By New York Times Type Court Document
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30-Aug-2006 | Forum draws diverse views on right to die
Social and civil rights activist Ah Quon McElrath asked a simple question: "Why is it we have found it so difficult to give an individual the right to choose living or dying?"
By Star Bulletin Type Article
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23-Aug-2006 | My Mother’s Choice
My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, when she was 49 years old and I was a fourth-year medical student. "You will be a doctor," she said. "You have to promise me, when the time comes, that you will give me something to end my life. If you love me, you won't let me suffer." I was horrified to hear these words. "But Mµ', how can you ask me to do that? You know I can’t," I responded, tears running down my face. Little did I know what the next 13 years would bring.
By JAMA Type Court Document
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21-Aug-2006 | Oregon's third senator
Being Kansas' senior senator is not enough for Sam Brownback. Apparently he knows what Oregonians do not and has crafted a bill to put our Northwest neighbors back on the yellow brick road of righteousness.
By Seattle Times Type Article
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4-Aug-2006 | Death With Dignity
The article in the March 3 issue on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act (DWDA) was relevant and enlightening. Shortly after the 6-3 Supreme Court vote supporting the law came the eighth annual report on the DWDA, a remarkable medical and psychosocial experiment.
By Psychiatric News Type Article
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15-Jul-2006 | A Medical Crisis of Conscience
In Chicago, an ambulance driver refused to transport a patient for an abortion. In California, fertility specialists rebuffed a gay woman seeking artificial insemination. In Texas, a pharmacist turned away a rape victim seeking the morning-after pill.
By Washington Post Type Article
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11-Jul-2006 | Quality of Mercy
Death is not fair and it is often cruel. Some die young, others in extreme old age. Some die quickly, others die slowly but peacefully. Some find personal or religious meaning in the process, as well as an opportunity for a final reconciliation with loved ones. Others, especially those with cancer, AIDS, or progressive neurological disorders, die by inches and in great anguish. Good palliative care usually can help in these cases, but not always, and often not enough.
By Willits News Type Article
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25-Jun-2006 | At death's window
THE MAN I KILLED did not want to die, but he no longer felt he had much of a choice. He had gone from being tall and strapping, full of appetites and a brilliant manner of speech, to a skeleton, weak and full of messy needs.
By LA Times Type Article
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20-Jun-2006 | Politics of death
TODAY, the state Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony for and against legalizing physician-assisted suicide in California. It is a topic that has evoked passionate debate, and became a political one when Terry Schiavo's heart-wrenching story was thrust into the national spotlight.
By San Francisco Chronicle Type Article
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18-Jun-2006 | California looks to replicate Oregon's assisted suicide law
Tucked away in the corner of a room in her three-bedroom condominium, Charlene Andrews has a box containing an urn and a pair of teapots for her ashes. Copies of her favorite songs and poems fill another box.
By San Francisco Chronicle Type Article
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8-Jun-2006 | Exit This Way
Denver lies dead center in the right-to-die debate. For several years, life was one long, lovely road trip for Sandy and Joann Bush, as the retired couple cruised from state to state in their RV. But while they were on the road in Iowa in the summer of 2004, Sandy's leg suddenly swelled to twice its normal size.
By Denver Westord Type Article
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28-May-2006 | The final choice: Who decides and how
Barbara Coombs Lee doesn't care what decision you make -- to live or die. Just make it. And, in the meantime, lobby legislators to let you make it.
By Santa Barbara News-Press Type Article
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27-May-2006 | The politics of death and dying
The 2008 presidential campaign appears to have begun already and the first salvo from a White House hopeful was aimed squarely at Oregonians.
By The World Type Article
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26-May-2006 | Kathryn Tucker 05.25.06 Congressional Hearing Testimony
On Friday, May 19, 2006 Sen. Brownback, chair of a Judiciary subcommittee of the U.S. Senate, announced a hearing to be held six days later, on “assisted suicide and euthanasia.” Committee members in the minority party called upon Compassion & Choices to help schedule witnesses and prevent an erroneous, biased record.
By Kathryn Tucker Type Court Document
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26-May-2006 | Ann Jackson 05.25.06 Congressional Hearing Testimony
On Friday, May 19, 2006 Sen. Brownback, chair of a Judiciary subcommittee of the U.S. Senate, announced a hearing to be held six days later, on “assisted suicide and euthanasia.” Committee members in the minority party called upon Compassion & Choices to help schedule witnesses and prevent an erroneous, biased record.
By Ann Jackson Type Court Document
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26-May-2006 | Julie McMurchie 05.25.06 Congressional Hearing Testimony
On Friday, May 19, 2006 Sen. Brownback, chair of a Judiciary subcommittee of the U.S. Senate, announced a hearing to be held six days later, on “assisted suicide and euthanasia.” Committee members in the minority party called upon Compassion & Choices to help schedule witnesses and prevent an erroneous, biased record.
By Julie McMurchie Type Court Document
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23-May-2006 | Philanthropy Roundtable
Flow chart of right-wing think-tank organizations from Jon B. Eisenberg, author of "Using Terri."
By Using Terri Type Other
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11-May-2006 | A quiet victory for the dying in Colorado
While the rest of us were too busy living to notice, a group of concerned Coloradans was spending years quietly working on the one issue that will affect us all.
By Denver Post Type Court Document
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3-May-2006 | Medieval thinking no help to dying
The Oregon Death with Dignity Act has worked nearly perfectly for more than eight years, giving peaceful dying to 246 patients and backup security to thousands more, with no evidence of misuse of the law. Sad to say, unfounded fears and old taboos have kept Washington from doing as well for its residents.
By Seattle Post-Intelligencer Type Article
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27-Apr-2006 | California Senator Diane Feinstein Endorsement
California Senator Diane Feinstein put her enormous political
credibility and stature behind the Compassionate Choices Act, pending in the CA legislature. Assembly member Patty Berg received a letter of full endorsement and support.
By Type Government
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6-Apr-2006 | The battle over the legacy of Terri Schiavo
As the first anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo - the woman who had been in a “persistent vegetative state” since 1990, and whose case dominated the headlines and 24/7 cable television newscasts a year ago - approached, the battle over her life, which had taken place in the courts, in the nation's capital, and on the streets outside her hospice room, shifted to a battle over her legacy, which is being fought out in several state legislatures and at bookstores around the nation.
By Working for Change Type News
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3-Apr-2006 | Health Workers' Choice Debated
More than a dozen states are considering new laws to protect health workers who do not want to provide care that conflicts with their personal beliefs, a surge of legislation that reflects the intensifying tension between asserting individual religious values and defending patients' rights.
By Washington Post Type News
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30-Mar-2006 | Living wills, end-of-life directives to be posted on the Net
OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Health will set up a secure, Web-based
registry of living wills and other health care directives under a bill Gov. Christine
Gregoire signed into law.
Under the measure, legal documents spelling out Washingtonians' wishes for
end-of-life medical care could be directly entered into the online registry.
By Associated Press Type News
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28-Mar-2006 | Press Release
By Compassion & Choices and Mergerwatch Type Other
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28-Mar-2006 | List of Health Care Restriction Bills
To find out if a health care decision restriction bill or refusal bill has been proposed in your state look at this table.
By Compassion & Choices Type Other
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27-Mar-2006 | Schiavo-inspired laws mostly fail
As Terri Schiavo lay dying in a Pinellas Park hospice, many who wanted to keep her alive challenged lawmakers nationwide to change state laws to prevent a similar ordeal.
By St. Petersburg Times Type Article
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17-Mar-2006 | Redlands Doctor Won't Lose License
A Redlands physician in danger of losing his license over allegations that he administered a lethal dose of morphine to hasten the death of a dying patient was cleared of the charge and can continue practicing medicine, the state medical board decided this month.
By LA Times Type News
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15-Mar-2006 | Poll on Attitudes on Aid in Dying
Over the twenty-seven years that The Field Poll has been tracking public sentiment on the issue of doctor-assisted suicide, a large majority of Californians have consistently endorsed the concept.
By The Field Poll Type Poll
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10-Mar-2006 | Doctor-assisted suicide cases flat
Thirty-eight terminally ill Oregonians died by doctor-assisted suicide last year, one more than the year before, health officials reported Thursday.
By Oregonian Type News
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1-Feb-2006 | Religous Health Restrictions
The Terri Schiavo tragedy highlighted problems that can arise when patients become unable to express their choices. But even when people make their preferences known in advance, some health care institutions might not honor those choices.
By MergerWatch Type Other
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31-Jan-2006 | Health Workers' Choice Debated
More than a dozen states are considering new laws to protect health workers who do not want to provide care that conflicts with their personal beliefs, a surge of legislation that reflects the intensifying tension between asserting individual religious values and defending patients' rights.
By Washington Post Type News
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20-Jan-2006 | U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Oregon's Right-to-Die Law
Since its enactment in 1997, Oregon's right-to-die law has galvanized religious leaders and organizations on both sides of the issue of physician-assisted dying. The only state statute of its kind in the nation, the Oregon Death with Dignity Act first drew fire from the Bush administration in 2001 when then-Attorney-General John Ashcroft threatened to prosecute doctors who administered lethal doses of prescription medications to terminally ill patients seeking to end their lives.
By Belief Net Type Article
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20-Jan-2006 | Washington Week with Gwen Ifell
The states are the battleground on assisted suicide, abortion, and prescription drug snafus, while Congress wrestles to reform itself. At the Supreme Court, the spotlight turned to Oregon as the justices rejected a Bush administration challenge to a landmark right-to-die law.
By Public Broadcasting Service Type News
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20-Jan-2006 | Role-Reversal: The Supreme Court on Physician Aid In Dying
The U.S. Supreme Court this week proved itself a surprising, and strong, ally in
the ongoing fight against the Bush administration's desire to play doctor. As we
honor Roe v. Wade's legacy of the right to conscience, bodily autonomy, and
government non-interference with private decisions, it is appropriate that we
celebrate this latest victory for personal freedom in the case of Gonzales v.
Oregon.
By Center for American Progress/ Mother Jones Type News
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18-Jan-2006 | Life-and-Death Decisions
FEW LEGAL ISSUES are more fraught with emotion than those involving the beginning and end of life. So when, in the space of two days, the Supreme Court decides cases involving each of those issues (one a New Hampshire abortion law, the other Oregon's assisted-suicide statute) and gets both of them right, with due respect for states' rights, while managing to dispose of the abortion case unanimously, it's worth pausing to appreciate the moment.
By Washington Post Type Article
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18-Jan-2006 | Fraught Issue, but Narrow Ruling in Oregon Suicide Case
The Supreme Court decision on Tuesday rejecting the Justice Department's effort to block the state's Death With Dignity Act will allow such suicides to continue, but it may not have the broad impact people on both sides of the debate are predicting.
By NY Times Type News
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17-Jan-2006 | Supreme Court upholds Oregon's suicide law
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the Bush administration's attempt to block the only state law that allows doctors to prescribe drugs to help the terminally ill end their lives.
By USA Today Type Article
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17-Jan-2006 | Assisted Suicide Upheld
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday upheld an Oregon law that allows doctor-assisted suicide. By 6-3 the Court said the U.S. Justice Department may not use a federal drug law to override the state law. Following a background report, two experts discuss the implications of the ruling.
By NewsHour Type News
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17-Jan-2006 | DEATH WITH DIGNITY UPHELD
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday upheld an Oregon law that allows doctor-assisted suicide. By 6-3 the Court said the U.S. Justice Department may not use a federal drug law to override the state law. Following a background report, two experts discuss the implications of the ruling.
By Public Broadcasting Service Type News
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17-Jan-2006 | DEATH W/ DIGNITY UPHELD
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday upheld an Oregon law that allows doctor-assisted suicide. By 6-3 the Court said the U.S. Justice Department may not use a federal drug law to override the state law. Following a background report, two experts discuss the implications of the ruling.
By PBS A NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Type News
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17-Jan-2006 | High court decision a relief for some patients
Charlene Andrews, who has terminal breast cancer, has not yet asked a doctor for the fatal dose of barbiturates that would enable her to take her own life.
By MSNBC Type Court Document
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5-Jan-2006 | Strong Public Support for Right to Die
An overwhelming majority of the public supports laws that give patients the right to decide whether they want to be kept alive through medical treatment. And fully 70% say there are circumstances when patients should be allowed to die, while just 22% believe that doctors and nurses should always do everything possible to save a patient.
By Pew Research Center Type Poll
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6-Dec-2005 | Research Suggests Doctor-assisted Suicide Wouldn’t Undermine Patient Trust
There is little evidence to support the argument that legalizing physician-assisted death would reduce patients’ trust in their doctors, according to a researcher from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues.
By Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Type Academic Journal
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21-Nov-2005 | Doctors favor physician-assisted suicide less than patients do
Nearly six in 10 physicians believe doctors should be legally permitted to dispense prescriptions for life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients who request them, according to a poll released last month.
By American Medical Assocation News Type News
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8-Nov-2005 | The Right To Die
Oregon set off a fierce national debate when it passed a law in 1997 allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminal patients who want to end their lives. Now the administration is challenging that law in the Supreme Court—and reigniting the controversy over doctor-assisted dying.
By AARP Bulletin Type News
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5-Nov-2005 | Drug Enforcement Agency Stripped of Role on New Painkillers
A House-Senate conference committee dropped a controversial provision Friday, that would have given the Drug Enforcement Administration authority to review and block the sale of new prescription narcotics including drugs that may relieve the severe pain of dying people.
By Washington Post Type News
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7-Oct-2005 | Autonomy for Oregon
THE SUPREME COURT heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that features one of the most aggressive federal assaults on state policymaking authority in recent history. The attack comes from conservative officials who normally profess states' rights as a kind of creed. Only a few years ago, the Supreme Court declined to acknowledge a federal right to a physician's assistance in ending one's own life, ruling that these agonizing end-of-life questions were the subject of a national debate toward which different states might reasonably take different approaches. To date, one state -- Oregon -- has authorized physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients; its voters strongly supported ballot initiatives to allow a narrow right to die under limited circumstances.
By Washington Post Type News
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6-Oct-2005 | Justices Hear Oregon Right-to-Die Case
The Supreme Court and its new chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr., heard the Bush administration's challenge to the nation's only right-to-die law Wednesday, a case that pits social conservatives against those who believe the terminally ill should be allowed medication that will end their lives. At issue is whether Oregon or the federal government has the power to decide whether doctors may prescribe lethal doses of medication.
By LA Times Type News
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6-Oct-2005 | Justices weigh assisted suicide
New Chief Justice John Roberts appeared skeptical Wednesday of an Oregon law that allows physicians to prescribe drugs to help terminally ill patients end their lives. During a spirited hour of arguments in his first major case on the bench, he aggressively questioned an attorney for the state and asked whether Oregon's law conflicts with federal anti-drug policy.
By USA TODAY Type News
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6-Oct-2005 | Court Hears Case on Suicide Law
The Supreme Court held an intense oral argument yesterday on Oregon's first-in-the-nation law allowing physician-assisted suicide, with the new chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr., sounding skeptical about the state's claim that it can make its own rules without federal interference.
By Washington Post Type News
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5-Oct-2005 | Transcript of Supreme Court Case
Read the transcript of the case Gonzales v Oregon. The case was heard on October 5, 2005.
By US Supreme Court Type Court Document
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5-Oct-2005 | OREGON'S ASSISTED SUICIDE CASE
When Caleb Heppner was diagnosed with terminal lung and bone iately of the horrid end to his father's life. He'd died of leukemia.
By Online Newshour with Jim Lehrer Type News
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5-Oct-2005 | Outside Court, Fierce Debate on State Law
The oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday over Oregon's Death With Dignity law focused narrowly on issues like the relationship between the federal government and the states.
By NY Times Type News
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5-Oct-2005 | Justices Hear Arguments on Oregon's Assisted-Suicide Law
The question of assisted suicide reached the Supreme Court today for the second time in eight years, although the profound issues of professional ethics and personal autonomy that have animated the national debate largely remained outside the courtroom.
By NY Times Type News
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5-Oct-2005 | Supreme Court Excerpts
Excerpts from justices' questioning during arguments in an assisted suicide case, as transcribed by Alderson Reporting Co.:
By Washington Post Type News
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4-Oct-2005 | The dying, not the feds, deserve final say on life
Caleb Heppner, a retired child-welfare administrator in Salem, Ore., has incurable lung cancer that has spread to his bones. Heppner, who never smoked, will likely die within six months.
By USA TODAY Type News
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4-Oct-2005 | Defining the language of life, death
The vocabulary of death and dying is elusive. Words raise questions about end-of-life decisions not just for patients and families but also for clergy, doctors, legal experts, ethicists and academicians.USA TODAY's Cathy Lynn Grossman asked experts to address the language and issues from their professional — and personal — experience.
By USA TODAY Type News
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30-Sep-2005 | Transcript of the Journal Editorial Report
Welcome to THE JOURNAL EDITORIAL REPORT. Shortly after it opens its new term next week, the Supreme Court, led by its new Chief Justice, John Roberts, will hear arguments on whether doctors should be able to help terminally ill patients end their lives. The Bush Administration is challenging Oregon's Death With Dignity Act, the only state law in the country that authorizes physician-assisted suicide. With me to join the national debate on this issue are Dan Henninger, columnist and deputy editor of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL editorial page, Kim Strassel, a senior writer for the page, and Brian Carney, a member of the editorial board. Let's begin with a report on the case before the Supreme Court from correspondent Barry Serafin.
By Public Broadcasting System Type News
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28-Sep-2005 | Court to Hear Oregon Suicide Law Case
The Bush administration is challenging Oregon's assisted suicide law, arguing that hastening someone's death is an improper use of medication and thus violates federal drug laws.
By Washington Post Type News
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28-Sep-2005 | The Challenge to Assisted Suicide in Oregon
Whether you call it assisted suicide, assisted death, or physician-assisted dying, it is illegal for a doctor to willingly help someone die by prescribing them a lethal dose of drugs—except in Oregon. But now the U.S. Attorney General has threatened to prosecute Oregon doctors under federal laws if the doctor prescribes drugs allowed by that state’s Death With Dignity Act. The case was argued before the Supreme Court on October 5. How will our nation grapple with the societal, political and social implications?
By NPR Justice Talking Type News
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25-Sep-2005 | In the end, peace of mind
OREGON IS A good place to live, especially if you're dying. It's the only state in the nation that gives you a choice about how and when to die. Physicians in Oregon are allowed to give terminally ill patients a lethal prescription — a hefty dose of barbiturates, in liquid form to make swallowing easier.
By LA Times Type News
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22-Sep-2005 | Directing your own end-of-life care
Your patients aren't the only ones who need advance directives. Here's how to prepare your own.
By Medical Economics Type News
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9-Aug-2005 | How the Media Helped Sink Bill
How does language affect the way the media portrays the issue? Does it affect public opinion?
By McKinleyville Press Type News
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1-Aug-2005 | Amicus Brief #2/14 - Law Professors Brief
Law Professors: Richard Briffault, William Eskridge, Jr; Phillip Frickey; Elizabeth Garrett; Jerry Mashaw; Edward Rubin; David Shapiro; Peter Strauss; Ernest Young
By Counsel Type Legal
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1-Aug-2005 | Amicus Brief #5/14 - Religion Brief
Amici Curiae Brief of 52 Religious and Religious Freedom Organizations and Leaders. The amici include clergy, organizations, and theologians from a wide range of faiths, including the United Church of Christ, the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, Reform Judaism, the Episcopal Church, the Catholic Church, and various humanist organizations.
By Counsel Type Legal
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1-Aug-2005 | Amicus Brief #7/14 - Survivors' Brief
Surviving Family Members: Scott Rice, Julie McMurchie, Patty Rosen, Tania Bloom, Marcia Angell, Beverly Heitz, Sue Parks Hilden, Laura Boessenroth, Stewart Florsheim, Leanne Gallison, Linda Kilcrease, Gail Bereny, Patsy McGeorge, Leslie Ghan, William Meyer
By Counsel Type Legal
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1-Aug-2005 | Amicus Brief #9/14 - Bioethicists' Brief
Bioethicists: Margaret Battin, Tom Beauchamp, Dan Brock, Edward Lowenstein, S. James Adelstein, Anita Allen-Castellitto, Marcia Angell, Robert Arnold, John Arras, Charles Baron, Howard Brody, Robert Brody, Allen Buchanan, Norman Cantor, Arthur Caplan, Christine Cassel, Eric Cassell, R. Alta Charo, Robert Cook-Deegan, Norman Daniels, Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Ronald Dworkin, Ruth Faden, Daniel Federman, Joel Frader, Leslie Pickering Francis, John Freeman, Bernard Gert, Samuel Gorovitz, Jeffrey Kahn, Yale Kamisar, Jerome Kassirer, Sylvia Law, Robert Lawrence, Robert Levine, Charles McKhann, Alan Meisel, David Orentlicher, Timothy Quill, Arnold Relman, Ben Rich, John Robertson, Thomas Scanlon, Lawrence Schneiderman, Anita Silvers, Peter Singer, Bonnie Steinbrock, Jeremy Sugarman, Judith Thomson, Robert Truog, Sidney Wanzer, Richard Wasserstrom, William Winslade, Peter Winter
By Counsel Type Legal
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1-Aug-2005 | Amicus Brief #10/14 - Medical Assocations' Brief
The American Academy of Pain Management, California Medical Assoc., American Geriatrics Society, San Francisco Medical Society, Society of General Internal Medicine, Washington State Medical Assoc., Medical Society of the State of New York, American Medical Student Association, American Medical Women’s Association, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. Southern California Cancer Pain Initiative, Washington State End of Life Consensus Coalition, Washington Intractable Chronic Pain Association, National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain, American Pain Foundation, Oregon Hospice Assoc., Inc., American Academy of HIV Medicine, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and a coalition of distinguished individual pain, palliative and elder care professionals
By Counsel Type Legal
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1-Aug-2005 | Patient Respondents' Brief
Compassion & Choices' respresents the patient plaintiffs in the case, Gonzales v. Oregon. Other plaintiffs are the state of Oregon, and an Oregon physician.
By Counsel Type Legal
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1-Aug-2005 | Opposition Briefs
Briefs on behalf of opponents to Oregon's assisted-dying law.
By Department of Justice Type Legal
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25-Jun-2005 | Tomlinson vs. Bayberry Brief by CA Med Assoc
Letter of accusation of Dr. Eugene Whitney, written by Ronald Joseph, Executive Director of the Medical Board of California.
By Medical Board of California Type Legal
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