physician-assisted suicide , PAS (abbreviation)
assisted suicide

His most recent book is a defense of physician-assisted suicide.

Opponents say the risk to patients and to society of physician-assisted suicide is great.

But he is the central figure in a landmark case on physician-assisted suicide.

The film is about the life and work of the physician-assisted suicide advocate.

The case raised the issue of whether there is a Federal constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide.

The issue of physician-assisted suicide is obviously a sticky one.

Q. Can you comment on physician-assisted suicide for older people?

In the northwest American state, "physician-assisted suicide" has been legal since 1997.

For the last few years, physician-assisted suicide has had a checkered political career.

If legalized, the rate of physician-assisted suicide will increase, but not very much.

Physician-assisted suicide is legal under the same conditions as euthanasia.

On the question "Should physician-assisted suicide under certain conditions be legalized?"

The same problem recurs in the current debate over physician-assisted suicide.

The task force acknowledged that for some patients physician-assisted suicide is the best option.

She speaks her mind directly about almost every current hot topic except physician-assisted suicide.

Similar concerns may, therefore, motivate patients to seek physician-assisted suicide.

Both could be counted among the usually secretive cases of physician-assisted suicide.

There are certainly strong opponents of physician-assisted suicide who endorse the House action.

In 1999 he was one of 20 Republicans to vote against an ultimately failed bill to ban physician-assisted suicide.

But physician-assisted suicide in Oregon is not like that.

This is perhaps the cruelest of the arguments against physician-assisted suicide.

Physician-assisted suicide is legal in the states of Oregon and Washington.

His actions are almost certainly illegal and can only disrupt the important debate over physician-assisted suicide.

"This is a right I have," she said, pleading with the commissioners to make physician-assisted suicide legal.

More than a cure or physician-assisted suicide, we need simply for society to make room for us.