In November, 2009, a twenty-nine-year-old woman named Brittany Maynard ended her own
life. 2 After being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer earlier that year, Maynard decided to …

On January 17, 2006, the United States Supreme Court rejected the US Attorney General's
claim of authority to declare what constitutes a legitimate practice of medicine. This …

Brittany Maynard, 29 years old, was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2014. After learning of
her new terminally ill status and the fact that there were no available treatments for her …

Recently, public attention has focused on the perceived need to allow those suffering from
terminal illnesses to hasten their deaths. People who favor assisting the terminally ill in …

On the last day of 2009, a divided Montana Supreme Court ruled that physicians in the Big
Sky state can legally prescribe medications for terminally ill patients to use in ending their …

Increasingly, and largely as a result of modern medicine, dying patients want more control
over the timing and manner of their deaths and want to have the option of a humane …

BACKGROUND On 27 October 1997, Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) took effect,
allowing physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to be selfadministered by …

Atjust twenty-nine years of age, Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer
and given a mere six months to live. 1 The cancer caused Maynard to suffer from debilitating …

Modern medicine can extend the dying process so long that a terminally ill patient may feel
trapped in a torturous, inexorable, lingering decline.'Sometimes the process takes too long …

Death With Dignity laws have legalized physicians assisting terminal patients, namely those
with< 6 months to live, with prescription medications to hasten their deaths. Despite being on …