Right-to-die | search
Click here to view Right-to-die news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- 1977 - Eight States Have Right to Die Bills - EuthanasiaBy 1977, eight states — California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, North Carolina, and Texas — had signed right-to-die bills into law. Post navigation 1980 – World Federation of Right to Die Societies Forms Oct. 1, 1976 – Nation’s First Aid in Dying Statute Signed into Law in CA
- Yale Kamisar - Euthanasia - ProCon.orgAs the New York State Task Force on Life and Law noted, the so-called right to die should mean only, and until recently meant only, ‘a right against intrusion,’ a right to resist ‘a direct invasion of bodily integrity, and in some cases, the use of physical restraints, both of which are flatly inconsistent with society’s basic ...
- Patients Rights Council - Euthanasia - ProCon.org“Right-to-die leaders have attempted for a long time to make it seem that anyone against euthanasia or assisted suicide is trying to impose his or her religion on others. But that’s not the case. People on both sides of the euthanasia and assisted suicide controversies claim membership in religious denominations.
- Gary Comstock - Euthanasia - ProCon.orgGary Comstock, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, in a July 12, 2017 article, "You Should Not Have Let Your Baby Die," available at nytimes.com, stated: “Sam, your newborn son, has been suffocating in your arms for the past 15 minutes.
- James Rachels - Euthanasia - ProCon.org‘Letting someone die’ is certainly different, in some respects, from other types of action – mainly in that it is a kind of action that one may perform by way of not performing certain other actions. For example, one may let a patient die by way of not giving medication, just as one may insult someone by way of not shaking his hand.
More
