Terminally ill patients in 10 states plus Washington, DC have the right to take prescribed
medications to end their lives (medical aid in dying). But otherwise-eligible patients with …

Shavelson and colleagues (2023) describe how medical aid-in-dying laws in the United
States prohibit assistance in administering aid-in-dying medication. This prohibition …

Some of the most common arguments against legalizing assisted dying are based on
appealing to the rights of people with disabilities. This article identifies and responds to …

The question of whether problems with the social determinants of health that might impact
decision-making justify denying eligibility for assisted dying has recently come to the fore in …

Pullman argues that when it comes to medical aid in dying (MAID),“Canada… has much to
learn from California”(Pullman 2023). Canada and California have similar populations: each …

Much of the literature on aid-in-dying (AID) has drawn heavily on rights-based ethical and
legal frameworks that emphasize patients' rights of self-determination in end-of-life decision …

In its 2015 decision in Carter v. Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada found that the
Criminal Code ban on medical assistance in dying (MAID) violated section 7 of the …

While once widely rejected as a health care option, physician aid in dying is receiving
increased recognition as a response to the suffering of patients at the end of life. With aid in …

PERSPECTIVE n engl j med 367; 2 nejm. org july 12, 2012 98 ill patients, including the
possibility of palliative sedation. Inadequate pain control therefore ranks among the least …

Not Dead Yet is a national disability rights organization formed in 1996 to articulate and
organize the disability rights opposition to legalization of assisted suicide. In the first half of …