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'Rational Suicide' Raises Patient Rights Issues.
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- Author(s): Podgers, James
- Source:
American Bar Association Journal. Dec80, Vol. 66 Issue 12, p1499. 3p.
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- Abstract:
Discusses the legal, medical and moral questions being raised by the concept of rational suicide, a terminally ill patient's decision to take his or her own life. Debate concerning the extent of patients' right to control their own treatment; Attention generated by self-deliverance or voluntary euthanasia since 1978; Possibility that the acceptance of rational suicide could lead to its abuse.
