Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?
This article considers both federal and state considerations around the legality of self-operated assisted suicide devices.
Physician Assisted Suicide
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Read more: It’s Time to Reinvigorate the Constitutional Claim for Physician Assistance in Dying 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…
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Read more: New York’s Highest Court Summarily Rejects a Constitutional Challenge to New York’s Ban on Physician-Assisted Suicide New York’s Highest Court Summarily Rejects a Constitutional Challenge to New York’s Ban on Physician-Assisted Suicide
By Norman L. Cantor Justice Cardozo, the legendary jurist from New York, would turn over in his grave upon reading the New York Court of Appeals’ per curiam (unsigned) opinion in Myers v. Schneiderman, 2017 WL 3897181 (9/17/17). The lawsuit was filed by several terminally ill patients (and physicians serving such patients) challenging New…
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Read more: California the latest to pass a Death with Dignity law, 5th in US California the latest to pass a Death with Dignity law, 5th in US
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Medical personnel are trained to “first do no harm.” In end-of-life treatment, that simple directive can be difficult to interpret, and the legal landscape has evolved in the United States over the past 25 years. In 1990, the US Supreme Court ruled that physicians and other…