Dr Buchman, thank you for your reflections, which highlight the need for all family physicians
to consider the ethical implications of physician-assisted death. 1 You speak of feeling …

Physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia have been topics of intense
controversy in the medical profession, within bioethics, and among the public over the past …

Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews. We, the
editors, are pleased with the response to the series over the years and, as a result, are …

The “death with dignity” movement, for all its well-intentioned and laudable passion, is at
once a logical reaction to and a pathologic extension of what Ivan Illich referred to 50 years …

This annual review of biomedical ethics is supposed to focus on physician-assisted death,
although of the six essays, only those of Miller and Fletcher and of Thomasma do, and only …

YES I will make 2 arguments to support the idea that assisted death is in the best interests of
some patients: death can sometimes be in a patient's best interest; and capable patients are …

The debate over the morality of physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia gets at
a question that is fundamental to the practice of medicine and about which there is little overt …

Physicians whose patients disclose a wish to die must
alwaysbelisteningforunderlyingdeepsorrow, thesource of which may or may not be self …

T he moral and ethical issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide have been of compelling
interest to me for many years. As a palliative care physician, I have had the privilege and …

Physician aid in dying is a broader topic than euthanasia in that the latter usually refers to
active euthanasia, while physician assistance also encompasses the issue of assisted …