TY - JOUR
T1 - Oregon's physician-assisted suicide legislation
T2 - Troubling issues for families
AU - Tilden, Virginia P.
AU - Lee, Melinda A.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - An individual autonomy framework, rather than a family framework, has prevailed in the national debate about physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. However, the separation of individual and family is artificial in the context of life-threatening illness. This article describes family issues when terminally ill patients consider physician-assisted suicide. Issues include family roles, motives, disagreements, and grief; the problems of misuse of a lethal prescriptive; and failed suicide attempts. For multiple reasons described, the family perspective is needed in debates about physician-assisted suicide.
AB - An individual autonomy framework, rather than a family framework, has prevailed in the national debate about physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. However, the separation of individual and family is artificial in the context of life-threatening illness. This article describes family issues when terminally ill patients consider physician-assisted suicide. Issues include family roles, motives, disagreements, and grief; the problems of misuse of a lethal prescriptive; and failed suicide attempts. For multiple reasons described, the family perspective is needed in debates about physician-assisted suicide.
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U2 - 10.1177/107484079700300202
DO - 10.1177/107484079700300202
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0011304799
SN - 1074-8407
VL - 3
SP - 120
EP - 129
JO - Journal of Family Nursing
JF - Journal of Family Nursing
IS - 2
ER -