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A physician's position on physician-assisted suicide

Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1997

On April 29, 1996, Dr. Quill offered testimony at an Oversight Hearing on "Assisted Suicide in the United States," before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. That testimony is reproduced here, with permission of the author.

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The Case for Physician-Assisted Suicide: How Can It Possibly Proven?

In her paper, The case for physician assisted suicide: not (yet) proven, Bonnie Steinbock argues that the experience with Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act fails to demonstrate that the benefits of legalising physician assisted suicide outweigh its risks. Given that her verdict is based on a small number of highly controversial cases that will most likely occur under any regime of legally implemented safeguards, she renders it virtually impossible to prove the case for physician assisted suicide. In this brief paper, we suggest some ways that may enable us to weigh the risks and benefits of legalisation more fairly and, hopefully, allow us to close the case for physician assisted suicide.

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