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| Contemporary state statutes about assisted suicide | | Author(s) | Donna Cohen, Jennifer Wareham |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 4, no 1, Spring 1998 |
| Pages | pp 4-8 |
| Keywords | Euthanasia ; Law ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors conducted a search of US state statutes to determine how each of the 50 states treated assisted suicides, and found variations in definition. Their article cites cases; lists specific statutes for the 36 states that criminalise assisted suicides; lists the five states where the law on the legality of assisted suicide is unclear; and lists the eight states that deal with assisted suicide as common law. Oregon is the only state with a law that in effect has specific standards on how an individual can ask a doctor for drugs to hasten his or her death. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981110202 A |
| Classmark | CY: VR: 7T |
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