RT Book
T1 Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Problems Presented by the Compelling, Heartwrenching Case
A1 Kamisar, Yale
LA English
YR 1998
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866135902
AB Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld New York and Washington state laws prohibiting the aiding of another to commit suicide,2 the spotlight will shift to the state courts, the state legislatures and state referenda. And once again proponents of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) will point to a heartwrenching case, perhaps the relatively rare case where a dying person is experiencing unavoidable pain (i.e., pain that not even the most skilled palliative care experts are able to mitigate), and ask: What would you want done to you if you were in this person's shoes