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Opposition to medical-assistance-in-dying–Part 3

In this third part of a series analyzing the arguments against medical-assistance-in-dying (MAID) by opponents of physician-assistance in hastening a person's death in the face of a terminal illness, Lamar Hankins looks at a major reference for most MAID opposition articles – a 2008 Michigan Law Review article, "Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective," by psychiatrist Herbert Hendin and neurologist Kathleen Foley.  Both oppose what they term "assisted suicide." (Continue reading ...)
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Lessons about PAD from disability rights advocates

Disability rights groups that oppose self-determination for people who seek physician-assisted dying (PAD ) argue that such people should not have the right to decide for themselves when their lives are no longer tenable.  Nevertheless, the disability rights groups do make points related to PAD that are worth considering; for one, they have helped me realize that over the last ten years I have become disabled. (Continue reading ...)
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DWD and disability–Part 2

The idea suggested by some disability rights advocates, that most of us will be disabled in one way or another by the time we reach the end of our lives, has been borne out in my experience.  Virtually everyone I have known who has died has met, days or weeks or months before their deaths, the definition of disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. How can we assure that those who are disabled are not coerced into ending their lives too soon? (Continue reading ...)
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How DWD laws discriminate

All of the Death With Dignity (DWD) laws now in the US are modeled after the Oregon law that went into effect in 1997.  The other jurisdictions that have adopted such a law include Washington, Vermont, Washington, D.C., Colorado, California, and Hawaii.  A judicial decision in Montana allows DWD to be practiced with cooperating doctors. Missing from all of these laws is the right of people who have specific kinds of incurable, debilitating, painful, or extremely distressing medical conditions, but are not necessarily within six months of dying, to use these laws. (Continue reading ...)
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