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  • Read more: Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Approaching Uncertainty with Humility
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    Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Approaching Uncertainty with Humility

    By Zain Khalid On May 22 this year, Zoraya Ter Beek, a 29-year-old woman from Netherlands, died by euthanasia on grounds of mental suffering. Zoraya had been diagnosed with chronic depression, borderline personality disorder, and autism and had struggled with self-harm and suicidal thinking for several year. She had tried numerous treatments, including 30 sessions…

  • Read more: It’s Time to Reinvigorate the Constitutional Claim for Physician Assistance in Dying
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    It’s Time to Reinvigorate the Constitutional Claim for Physician Assistance in Dying

    By Norman L. Cantor Since 1997, when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected federal constitutional challenges to New York and Washington prohibitions of assistance to suicide, the notion that a dying patient might have a constitutional right to obtain a lethal prescription has gotten short shrift.  Even when the dying patient’s claim for physician assistance in…