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Update 20: Volume 14, Number 1 — Year 2000, Number 1
Oregon’s second assisted-suicide report: Not the whole story
Incomplete and inaccurate data
Data sources limited
Troubling PAS cases not reported or cited
Dutch study makes Oregon look bad
Another OHD omission
First 2 Years under Oregon’s PAS Law
2 deaths linked to suicide video broadcast
Portrait of a victim
Humphry’s response
Other deaths linked to book
Commentary: Love, not poison pills: Oregon’s cause for shame; by N. Gregory Hamilton
Arizona
California
Missouri
New Hampshire
Nitschke gets OK for death clinics in Tasmania
Suicides among Australian youth increasing
Belgium considers euthanasia proposal
Ethics committee wants euthanasia “tolerated”
Elder abuse and involuntary euthanasia reported
Anti-euthanasia bill blocked in Parliament
BMA rejects physician-assisted suicide
Clinical problems and complications associated with euthanasia and PAS
Euthanasia consultants: New government-sponsored specialty
Dutch study looks at termination of treatment decisions
Euthanasia society pushes induced-death “living will”
Scotland passes patient “incapacity” bill
Understanding burdens of terminal illness reduces depression in patients and caregivers
Errors in prognoses can adversely affect end-of-lie care
Update 21: Volume 14, Number 2 — Year 2000, Number 2
Maine targeted to promote national right-to-die agenda
Funding of Maine’s assisted suicide proposal
Maine’s health care delivery crisis
Pressure to die
Painkilling drugs do not hasten death
Euthanasia and double effect
Findings support evidence
European patent denied for human euthanasia drug use
Euthanasia gurus meet to discuss ghoulish ways to die
Disability groups oppose assisted suicide; Not Dead Yet protests
Colorado appeals court upholds assisted suicide ban
AARP reports findings on death and dying
High court judge rules boy must be left to die
Disabled boy’s relatives convicted for saving his life
Child euthanasia proposal amended
Depressed patients less likely to follow doctors’ recommended treatment
Feeding tubes and less aggressive treatment urged for dementia patients
Dementia often misdiagnosed
Drug errors common in nursing homes
Update 22: Volume 14, Number 3 — Year 2000, Number 3
Dutch Parliament votes to legalize euthanasia
What the new law entails
Reporting: Problematic
Euthanasia for minors
Euthanasia advance directives
Reaction
Next: Those “suffering from life”
Maine voters reject “Death with Dignity” Referendum
The Oregon influence
Opposition coalition formed
Loss a matter of message, not money
Polls tell the story
Oncologists’ support for physician-assisted suicide & euthanasia drops dramatically
Terminally ill seldom consider assisted suicide or euthanasia for themselves
Vast majority of Jack Kevorkian’s “patients” had no terminal illness
Home-grown poisons to be tested in secret lab
Charges in euthanasia case dropped
Doctors kill one in 10 Belgians
Brain-dead organ donors should receive painkillers
High court rules removing food & fluids not a violation of Human Rights Act