Citation

Ames K, Wilson L, Sawhill R, Glick D, King P. Newsweek 1991; 118(9): 40-41.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Newsweek)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10112865

Abstract

When dying is all that awaits them, more and more people are choosing certain death now rather than uncertain life on medical support systems. But the decision seldom comes easy, as a Newsweek reporter discovers during three weeks with the doctors, nurses, patients and families in an intensive-care ward. A best-selling guide to suicide fires debate over when it is right to let life go--and who should make that choice when the patient no longer can.

Language: en

Keywords

Advance Directives; Hospital-Patient Relations; Physician-Patient Relations; Right to Die; Suicide; United States