TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Oregon's physician-assisted suicide legislation: Troubling issues for families
JO  - Journal of family nursing
A1  - Tilden, V.P.
A1  - Lee, M.A.
SP  - 120
EP  - 129
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
N2  - An individual autonomy framework, rather than a family framework, has prevailed in the national debate about physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. However, the separation of individual and family is artificial in the context of life-threatening illness. This article describes family issues when terminally ill patients consider physician-assisted suicide. Issues include family roles, motives, disagreements, and grief; the problems of misuse of a lethal prescriptive; and failed suicide attempts. For multiple reasons described, the family perspective is needed in debates about physician-assisted suicide. © 1997 Sage Publications, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1074-8407
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107484079700300202
ID  - ref1
ER  -