Physician-assisted suicide: A perspective from advocates for people with disability

Although public opinion in the United States on physician-assisted suicide is evenly divided, about half of states have either defeated bills to legalise assisted suicide or have passed laws explicitly banning it and only two states (Oregon and Washington) have legalised it. In this environment, A Disability Perspective on the Issue of Physician-Assisted Suicide, a special issue of Disability and Health Journal: The Official Journal of the American Association on Health and Disability, published by Elsevier, examines the issues related to assisted suicide and disability, the legal considerations and the Oregon and Washington experiences...

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