Citation

Humphry D. Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain and Symptom Control 1996; 4(1-2): 177-182.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996)

DOI

10.1300/j088v04n01-2_01

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The author of Final Exit describes some of the ways in which terminally ill patients obtain, store, and use drugs in seeking a painless, dignified death, as well as his observations of the drugs most effective in producing death.

Language: en

Keywords

United States; human; suicide; law; Death; Euthanasia; Drugs; article; euthanasia; terminal disease; public opinion; Dying; Assisted suicide; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; illicit drug; Plastic bag; Terminal illness; AIDS lethal drugs; Compassion in dying; Hemlock Society; Oregon Death with Dignity Act