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U.S. Historical Perspective and Current Trends Alaska California California Death With Dignity Act Florida Hawaii Maine Michigan Proposal B - Michigan's Ballot Initiative on Assisted Suicide New Hampshire New Hampshire Aid-in-Dying Act New York Oregon 1st Annual Report on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act (1998) 2nd Annual Report on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act (1999) 3rd Annual Report on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act (2000) 4th Annual Report on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act (2001) 5th Annual Report on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act (2002) Eighth Annual Report on Assisted Suicide in Oregon. Executive Summary of the 5th Annual Report on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act (2002) How Do Oregon Psychologists View Their Role in Physician-Assisted Suicide? Measure 16 - Oregon Death With Dignity Act Oregon's Assisted Suicide Experience: Safeguards Don't Work Physician-Assisted Suicide: Reflections on Oregon's First Case The Oregon Report: Don't Ask, Don't Tell Vermont Washington |
California Death With Dignity Act Proposition 161 (1992)Failed: 46% to 54% Summary Would have allowed a mentally competent adult to voluntarily execute a revocable directive governing the administration of aid-in-dying. “Aid-in-dying” was defined as a medical procedure that would kill a qualified patient in a painless manner whether administered by the physician at the patient’s choice or direction or whether the physician provided means to the patient for self-administration. A “qualified patient” meant a mentally competent adult patient who had been diagnosed and certified in writing by two physicians to have a terminal condition, and who had expressed a request for aid-in-dying more than once. A “terminal condition” meant an incurable or irreversible condition which would, in the opinion of two certifying physicians exercising reasonable medical judgment, result in death within six months or less. Posted on June 26, 2004. |