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Views on euthanasia and suicide from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages / Eurhanasia from the Renaissance throught the early twentieth century / The first euthanasia society in the United States / "Euthanasia" in Nazi Germany / The euthanasia debate in the 1950s and 1960s / The Quinlan Case establishes the right to have life support withdrawn / The law requires clear evidence of a patient's wish to forgo life-sustaining treatment / The Hemlock Society starts the movement to legalize assisted suicide / The Supreme Court upholds a state's ban on assisted suicide / Assisted suicide could be legalized in the future / The continuing legal battle over physician-assisted suicide in Oregon / Assisted suicide is a transgression of divine sovereignty / Assisted suicide does not violate the sanctity of life / Legalized euthanasia in the Netherlands has resulted in many deaths without consent / Physician-assisted suicide is morally justified / Assisting in suicide is part of a physician's duty / Physician-assisted suicide subverts the role of doctors as healers / Patients need better end-of-life care rather than assisted suicide / When palliative care fails, assisted suicide should be an option / by Michael M. Uhlmann -- by Derek Humphry and Ann Wickett -- by Charles Francis Potter -- by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- by Ian Dowbiggin -- by Charles E. Hughes -- by William Rehnquist -- by Derek Humphry and Mary Clement -- by William Rehnquist -- by Ronald Dworkin -- by Lawrence Rudden -- by John J. Paris and Michael P. Moreland -- by John Shelby Spong -- by Herbert Hendin -- by Kenneth Cauthen -- by Jack Kevorkian -- by Lonnie R. Bristow -- by Kathleen Foley -- by Timothy E. Quill.
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Euthanasia--History.
Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia--Law and legislation--History.
Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.
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