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Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

1. The
Economist

Popular

2. Ryan T.
Anderson, PhD

Professional/tra
de

Oregon insists
that the lethal
dose is selfadministered,
to avoid
voluntary
euthanasia.

Physician
assisted suicide
violates
human dignity
and denies
equality before
the law.

It would be
wrong to deny
everyone the
right to assisted
death just
because some
people are
concerned that
certain patients
may not be able
to make the
correct decision.
Physician
assisted suicide
corrupts the
profession of
medicine by
permitting the
tools of healing
to be used as
techniques for
killing.

The criterion
for assisting
dying should be
a patients
assessment of
his suffering,
not the nature
of his illness.

Citizens and
policymakers
need to resist
the push for
physicianassisted
suicide.

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3. Christopher
J. Hale

Popular

Oftentimes,
healthcare
plans will
cover the cost
of lethal
prescriptions
but will not pay
for appropriate
treatment.

Physician
assisted suicide
could put
undue pressure
on the poor, the
lonely, and the
excluded.

4. Timothy E.
Quill, MD &
Jane Greenlaw,
RN, JD

Professional/tra
de

Patient
suffering
cannot be
restricted to the
physical realm
and must
include
psychological,
social,
existential, and
spiritual
dimensions.

Purposefully
helping a patient
die is
categorically
wrong under any
circumstances.

5. F. Michael
Gloth III, MD

Professional/tra
de

Physicianassisted suicide
occurs when a
physician
facilitates a
patient's death
by providing
the necessary
means and
information to
enable the
patient to
perform a life-

Assisted suicide
would would
undermine the
physician-patient
relationship as
well as
improvements in
end of life care.

Focusing on
expanding
access to
health care for
every
American at
the end of
their lives
would be the
progressive
thing to do.
Doctors and
patients
should have
more open
access to
and awareness
oflast resort
options

Instead of
participating
in assisted
suicide,
physicians
should
respond
aggressively
to the needs of
patients at the
end of life.

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ending act.

Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

6. Cullen
Herout

Popular

Helping
patients kill
themselves is
the antithesis of
the medical
profession.

The growing
sentiment
toward assisted
suicide is
encouraging
doctors to
ignore the
healing element
of their
professions in
order to fit a
culture of death
agenda.
The effect of
legalizing
physicianassisted suicide
will be the
diminishing of
the value of
human life at
its end stage.

Its time to
stand up for
the dignity
and value of
all human life
before its too
late.

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7. Steve
Chapman

8. Brittany
Maynard

Popular

9. Steven A.
King, MD, MS

Scholarly

Pain is a
widespread
problem in this
country. A
recent study by
the National
Center for
Complementar
y and
Integrative
Health found
that over 25
million
American
adults reported
having daily
pain for at least
the previous
3 months and
that over 40
million
experienced

Life is a gift
that can also
become an
intolerable
burden.

Instead of being
devastating and
far-reaching, it
appears to be
modest but
beneficial in its
effects.

Death is a right
it is only fair
that we get to
die on our
terms.

Physician
assisted suicide
can provide
patients and their
families relief in
an otherwise
difficult time.
I believe
that the already
existing laws
and
those that have
been proposed
have
major holes
that could
result in people
requesting
death because
of potentially
treatable health
problems.

There should
be an option
provided to
terminally ill
patients
regarding how
to end their
own lives.
Patients should
have a say in
how their end
of life care is
carried out.
States are
responsible for
passing laws
that ensure
adequate pain
management

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severe or very
severe
pain during that
time.

10. Y. Tony
Yang, ScD,
LLM, MPH;
Farr A. Curlin,
MD

Scholarly

Physician
assisted suicide
is
fundamentally
inconsistent
with the
physician's
professional
role.

Physician
assisted suicide
is never
justifiable
because it always
violates the
injunction not to
kill.

11. Kevin
Drum

Popular

Suicide has
always been a
sin to the
Catholic
Church, and in
1965 the
Vatican
reaffirmed this
position,
declaring that
abortion,
euthanasia, and
other forms of
taking life
poison human
society.

When he signed
Californias rightto-die
bill, Gov. Brown
attached a
signing
statement.
I do not know
what I would do
if I
were dying in
prolonged and
excruciating
pain, he wrote.
I am certain,
however,
that it would be a
comfort to be
able to
consider the
options afforded

Physicians
should oppose
the legalization
of physicianassisted suicide
and steadfastly
refuse to
condone or
participate in
it.
When the end
is near, I
want to take
my own life.

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by this bill.
And I wouldnt
deny that right to
others.

12. Kasper
Raus,
Sigrid Sterckx,
Freddy Mortier

Scholarly

Hence, those
who regard
sedation as
falling within
the role of the
physician
cannot argue
that C(D)S can
be
distinguished
from PAS on
the basis that
this one is a
healing act and
the other is
not.

Like PAS,
C(D)S is not
about healing.

13. Angela K.
Martin,
Alex Mauron,
Samia A. Hurst

Scholarly

Physicians
legitimate tasts
are not limited
to healing:
There are
additional goals
of medicine
that physicians
have to take
into account.

Healing
does not
subsume every
aspect of
acceptable
medical
practice. There
are medical
practices that
are clearly not
cases of
healing, but
that are still
regarded as

Moreover, not
only does it seem
doubtful that PAS
is
likely to lead to
abuse via a
slippery slope,
but it also seems
questionable that
CS is free from
such a risk or
even poses a
considerably
lower risk.

A right to
suicide is only
a liberty right
and does not
imply any
entitlement to
suicide
assistance from
anyone. It is a
personal
decision
whether one
wants to
provide

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ethically
acceptable
and compatible
with medical
ethos.
14. Fiona
Randall &
Robin Downie

Scholarly

Prescribing a
lethal
medication
overdose
cannot
(logically)
count as a
treatment in a
patient's best
health interests
and would in
fact make the
doctor a
decision maker
and agent in
bringing about
what is an
'adverse
outcome' of
treatment.

The question
should not be
whether
'physicianassisted
suicide' or
'euthanasia by
doctors'
should be
legalised,
since it is
simply
irrational to
consider
AS/VE as
'treatments' or
'healthcare
interventions'.
Instead,
AS/VE must
be debated in
a context
where they are
explicitly
excluded from
the healthcare
domain.

assisted
suicide for
those seeking it
due to terminal
illness and
unbearable
suffering.
The decision
regarding
whether or not
to legalise
AS/VE is
for society, one
to be taken
after proper
democratic
parliamentary
debate.

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15. Vicki
Lachman

Scholarly

16. Michael
Manning, M.D.

Book

People with
cancer, as well
as AIDS,
amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis
(ALS), other
advanced or
terminal
illness, poorly
managed pain,
and other
symptoms
commonly
make requests
for hastened
death.

True
compassion
consists in
helping the
patient escape
his or her
misery with an
easy, painless
death.

Legalization
of assisted
death was
coupled with
significant
improvements
in palliative
care training
for physicians,
the
communication
of patient
wishes
regarding lifesustaining
treatment, pain
management,
increased rates
of referral to
hospice
programs, and
increased
percentage of
deaths
occurring at
home.
Euthanasia or
physicianassisted suicide
might help
reduce the high
costs of
medical care
for the
terminally ill
and make new
financial

As more states
pass ballot
initiatives or
laws supporting
PAS, nurses
will be faced
with the legal
choice to
participate in
the process of
PAS by
providing
information on
the option and
attending to the
patient who has
taken the lethal
drug.

Better
training of the
general
internist in
these areas
could help
bring
symptomatic
relief to many
more dying
patients.

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resources
available for
purposes that
might better
serve the
common
good.

Medical
research has
not
sufficiently
addressed the
needs of the
terminally ill
and dying.

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