Assisted Suicide

See also:

• Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Palliative Care  (47)
• Society: Death: Suicide  (143)
• Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Right to Die  (62)

Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief - - Legal arguments for the legalization of physician assisted suicide from the 1997 Supreme Court amicus brief by six philosophers.

Back Off John! - - A site by Oregon Death with Dignity, which supports end-of-life choice, that presents arguments against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's interference in Oregon physician assisted dying law. The site also provides information about the Oregon law, and a petition to "sign" to demonstrate opposition to Ashcroft's actions.

I Want to Die - - Personal story of a quadriplegic who seeks assisted suicide.

Oregon Public Health Services: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act - - Information and annual reports on the implementation of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which legalized physician assisted dying for competent, terminally ill adults.

Pro-Life Blogs - - Directory and post aggregator of web logs supporting and promoting sanctrity of life issues in all aspects. Also includes original material.

San Francisco Chronicle - "Court hears suicide-law case; Appellate judges grill federal lawyer over strategy in Oregon" - - The U.S. Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in Oregon v. Ashcroft, the case contesting the Attorney General's attempted nullification of Oregon's physician assisted dying law.

Honolulu Advertiser - "Oregon not deluged with assisted suicides" - - An editorial about the successful implementation of Oregon assisted dying law. (March 10, 2003)

CBS News, 60 Minutes II - "Switzerland's Suicide Tourists" - - A transcript of a television program about Dignitas, a Swiss organization that helps terminally ill individuals from around the world hasten their deaths. (February 12, 2003)