Endnotes for Assisting Suicide III

Notes

1. Burke J. Balch is Director of the National Right to Life Committee's Department of Medical Ethics. Randall K. O'Bannon is a Research Associate for the Department of Medical Ethics.

2. James H. Brown, Paul Henteleff, Samia Barakat, and Cheryl J. Rowe, "Is It Normal for Terminally Ill Patients to Desire Death?" American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 143, No. 2 (February 1986), p. 210.

3. USA Today, August 9, 1993, 2nd Editorial Page.

4. People v. Kevorkian Transcript p.93-94, 90-390963-AZ, Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Oakland Co. Cir. Ct., June 8, 1990)

5. Floria Johnson Skelly, "Don't dismiss depression, physicians say," American Medical News, September 7, 1992, p.28

6. Joseph Rchman, Letter to the Editor, "The Case against Rational Suicide," Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Fall 1988), p. 288

7. Skelly, supra note 4.

8. Leslie Miller, "Kubler-Ross, Loving Life, Easing Death,"USA Today, Monday, November 30, 1992, p.6D

9. Richard A. Knox, "Poll: Americans favor mercy killing," Boston Sunday Globe, November 3, 1991, p. 22, as well as Robert J. Blendon, Ulrike S. Szalay, and Richard A. Knox, "Should Physicians Aid Their Patients in Dying?" Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 267, No. 19 (May 20, 1992), p. 2660.




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