Citation

Painton P, Taylor E. Time 1990; 135(12): 62-68, 70-71.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10104321

Abstract

When the very technology that can save lives is only prolonging death, how should a patient decide whether to stop treatment--or help death along? In the last days of a ravaging disease, patients and their families face all but unbearable decisions. Is there a right to die? To commit suicide? To be killed on request? As the private dilemmas multiply, they have become the public province of interest groups, policymakers and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Language: en

Keywords

Cruzan v. Harmon; Death and Euthanasia; Decision Making; Ethics, Medical; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Female; Humans; Life Support Care; Male; Missouri; Moral Obligations; Popular Approach/Source; Public Opinion; Right to Die; Stress, Psychological; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment