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| American Geriatrics Society on physician-assisted suicide: brief to the United States Supreme Court | | Author(s) | Joanne Lynn, Felicia Cohn, John H Pickering |
| Corporate Author | American Geriatrics Society |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 4, April 1997 |
| Pages | pp 489-499 |
| Keywords | Euthanasia ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Medical care ; Doctors ; Geriatricians ; Law ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The controversy over physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has become a focal point of American law since the United States Supreme court accepted two PAS cases in October 1996, both filed by terminally ill persons and physicians to overturn state laws prohibiting PAS. The lower courts involved in both cases found a right to PAS. The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) submitted a legal brief as an "amicus curiae" (friend of the court) to the Supreme Court on both cases, urging the court not to recognise a constitutional right to PAS. The aim of the brief was to provide the court with the views of geriatricians and their patients. It suggested that the lower courts relied on misperceptions about dying and dying persons, countered the claims that PAS is no different from refusing life-sustaining treatment, and argued that limits on PAS will be difficult to establish and sustain. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970812255 A |
| Classmark | CY: CX: LV: LK: QT2: QT4: VR: 7T |
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