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Death on trial.

Authors :
Shapiro, Joseph P.
Bowermaster, David
Source :
U.S. News & World Report. 4/25/94, Vol. 116 Issue 16, p31. 6p. 8 Color Photographs.
Publication Year :
1994

Abstract

Discusses how a growing number of doctors and bioethicists are challenging the attitudes that suicide is an act of logic and that euthanasia is a civil right. Case of Dr. Jack Kevorkian; Medical and social service breakthroughs that can take the pain and financial ruin out of most deaths; Dangers in physician-assisted suicide; Fear that right to die can easily become a duty to die for the elderly, sick, and poor; Profile of Donna White who contemplated suicide.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00415537
Volume :
116
Issue :
16
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
U.S. News & World Report
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
9404197638