Project 1: Sources Timeline

By ddrywa

  • “Why Active Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide Should Be Legalised : If Death Is in a Patient’s Best Interest Then Death Constitutes a Moral Good.”

    Doyal, Lesley. “Why Active Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide Should Be Legalised : If Death Is in a Patient’s Best Interest Then Death Constitutes a Moral Good.” BMJ : British Medical Journal 323.7321 (2001): 1079–1080. Print. Describes that physician assisted suicide should only be legal when death of a patient is in their best interests.

  • “Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Review of the Empirical Data From the United States.”

    Emanuel EJ. “Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Review of the Empirical Data From the United States.” Jama Arch Intern Med. 2002;162(2):142-152. Web. 17 Jan. 2015. The public supports euthanasia in patients who are severely suffering with pain, however, most patients are not in pain but rather depressed or have psycholoigcal factors. Euthanasia occurs at a low rate.

  • "Right to Die"

    Jost, Kenneth. "Right to Die." CQ Researcher. 13 May 2005: 421-444. Web. 18 Jan. 2015. The public has increasingly supported physician assisted suicide and the right to die. The government has been intervening and many Americans disagree with their right to do so.

  • “Killing Us Softly: The Dangers of Legalizing Assisted Suicide.”

    Golden M., T. Zoanni. “Killing Us Softly: The Dangers of Legalizing Assisted Suicide.” Disability Health Journal. 2010. (3):16–30. Web. 17 Jan. 2015. The problems with legalizing assisted suicide such as misunderstandings, fear and bias toward disabilities, and profit- driven health care systems. There are many negativies to assisted suicide.

  • "Euthanasia"

    Diaconescu, Amelia Mihaela. "Euthanasia." Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice 4.2 (2012): 474-483. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 18 Jan. 2015. The debate between the morality of assisted suicide which consists of high cost of medical treatments, medic ethics, religious debate, legal debate, respect for life and respect for self-determination of individuals.

  • “Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act – 2013”

    “Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act – 2013,” Public Health Division, State of Oregon. January 2013. pp. 4-5. Web. 17 Jan. 2015. Oregon passed the "death with dignity act" allowing for terminally ill patients to use prescriptions from their physicians for self- administered lethal doses. The amount of prescriptions written and deaths occured have been increasing since 1998.