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When Medical Treatment is Worse than Death

10, Aug 2010

Letting Go What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? Atul Gawande, The New Yorker (August 2, 2010) Dr. Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane Terry Gross, Fresh Air on WHHY (July 29, 2010) A few weeks ago, Dr. Atul Gawande wrote a good piece on End of Life decision making [...]

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  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted dying, bioethics, death with dignity
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Kevorkian Revisited

31, Mar 2010

Independent Minds: Dr. Jack Kevorkian (Listen to the audio) Heard an interesting public radio broadcast this evening. It’s a series titled “Independent Minds” and tonight’s profile featured Dr. Jack Kevorkian. The show illuminates, through interviews, audio clips and sound bites, the life of the controversial “Dr. Death” and attempts to separate and dissect the man [...]

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  • In: Death + Crime|Death + Popular Culture|Death + the Law|Death Ethics|Suicide
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UK Children Not Charged with Assisting Parents to Die

19, Mar 2010

No Assisted Suicide Charge for Son of Sir Edward Downes BBC News (March 19, 2010) My very first post for the Death Reference Desk occurred on July 15, 2009 and it discussed the deaths of Edward and Joan Downes. The Downes’ went to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland to die together, their’s is a common [...]

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2009 Oregon Death with Dignity Numbers

14, Mar 2010

2009 Summary of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act The Oregon Public Health Division (March 2010) Report Finds 36 Died Under Assisted Suicide Law William Yardley, The New York Times (March 04, 2010) Earlier this month, the state of Oregon published its annual report on who used the 1997 Death with Dignity Act. I have discussed [...]

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Living in America and Dying with Dignity in Europe

3, Mar 2010

Frontline: The Suicide Tourist PBS (March 02, 2010) Assisted Suicide Guidelines: Family Can Still Face Prosecution Sandra Laville, The Guardian (February 25, 2010) Frontline, the documentary film unit for the Public Broadcasting Service in America, just premiered a really important new program. The film follows an American, Craig Ewert, as he decides to end his [...]

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