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Adapted from VES –The Voluntary Euthanasia Society of England and Wales

Ira R. Byock, American Journal Hospice & Palliative Care, March/April 1995.

The following article from THE AGE (Melbourne) March 7, 2001 was forwarded by the DELIVERANCE NEWS SERVICE.

THE HARD WAY OUT

Chloe Saltau with Theresa Ambrose

Fenn and Ganzini, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, June 1999.

THE OREGONIAN (Sunday, February 18, 2001)
By Erin Hoover Barnett of The Oregonian staff

FEW USE IT, BUT SUICIDE LAW STILL HAS IMPACT

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act influences end-of-life care
across the state as doctors wrestle with prescribing
pain treatment

Sixteen people died by physician-assisted suicide in 1998 and another 27 in 1999. And when the Oregon Health Division releases its third annual report on the practice Wednesday, little if any growth is expected in the number of cases, say experts outside the health division.

The number of reported incidents of euthanasia has dropped by 15 percent during the past four years, but it is suspected the actual “mercy killing” figure is double the amount of recorded cases.

Legal experts and civil libertarians have condemned the gagging order on pro-euthanasia campaigner Lesley Martin as a possible breach of the Bill of Rights.

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, oral arguments in Oregon v. Ashcroft begin before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

An 89-year-old man will be charged with murder after telling police he smothered his 85-year-old wife in her nursing home bed last week to end her pain, authorities said Monday.

Lesley Martin can resume her campaign to legalise euthanasia after a gagging order was lifted in the Wanganui District Court yesterday.

On October 10, the ACLU-NC filed an amicus brief in the California Supreme Court supporting Robert Wendland, a man on life-support, who had previously asserted his desire not to be sustained artificially by medical technology.