EUTHANASIA AND SUICIDE IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES: Views on euthanasia and suicide from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages / Michael M. Uhlmann
Euthanasia from the Renaissance through the early Twentieth Century / Derek Humphry and Ann Wickett
The first euthanasia society in the United States / Charles Francis Potter
"Euthanasia" in Nazi Germany / U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
The euthanasia debate in the 1950s and the 1960s / Ian Dowbiggin
LEGAL BATTLES: The Quinlan case establishes the right to have life support withdrawn / Charles E. Hughes
The law requires clear evidence of a patient's wish to forgo life-sustaining treatment / William Rehnquist
The Hemlock Society starts the movement to legalize assisted suicide / Derek Humphry and Mary Clement
The Supreme Court upholds a state's ban on assisted suicide / William Rehnquist
Assisted suicide could be legalized in the future / Ronald Dworkin
The continuing legal battle over physician-assisted suicide in Oregon / Lawrence Rudden
THE ETHICAL DEBATE: Assisted suicide is a transgression of divine sovereignty / John J. Paris and Michael P. Moreland
Assisted suicide does not violate the sanctity of life / John Shelby Spong
Legalized euthanasia in the Netherlands has resulted in many deaths without consent / Herbert Hendin
Physician-assisted suicide is morally justified / Kenneth Cauthen
PHYSICIANS AND ASSISTED SUICIDE: Assisting in suicide is part of a physician's duty / Jack Kevorkian
Physician-assisted suicide subverts the role of doctors as healers / Lonnie R. Bristow
Patients need better end-of-life care rather than assisted suicide / Kathleen Foley
When palliative care fails, assisted suicide should be an option / Timothy E. Quill
