Colleen's Choice. Barry Yeoman.
by Yeoman, Barry; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 66Family. Publisher: AARP Magazine, 2003ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Assisted suicide | Assisted suicide -- Case studies | Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation | Oregon | Patients -- Legal status | Physician and patient | Right to dieDDC classification: 050 Summary: "When her fight against cancer became unbearable, a woman who savored life chose death as her only option. Now the U.S. government is challenging the law that helped her end the agony." (AARP MAGAZINE) This article profiles one woman's decision to end her life by using Oregon's Death With Dignity Act, "which allows physicians to write lethal prescriptions for certain terminally ill patients." Included is a discussion of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's crusade to "prohibit doctors who prescribe fatal doses of medicine from writing prescriptions under the Controlled Substances Act."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
Originally Published: Colleen's Choice, March/April 2003; pp. 72+.
"When her fight against cancer became unbearable, a woman who savored life chose death as her only option. Now the U.S. government is challenging the law that helped her end the agony." (AARP MAGAZINE) This article profiles one woman's decision to end her life by using Oregon's Death With Dignity Act, "which allows physicians to write lethal prescriptions for certain terminally ill patients." Included is a discussion of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's crusade to "prohibit doctors who prescribe fatal doses of medicine from writing prescriptions under the Controlled Substances Act."
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