QuillCassel, and Meier, “Care of the Hopelessly 111: Proposed Clinical Criteria for Physician-Assisted Suicide,”327New England Journal of Medicine (Nov. 5, 1992), 1380–1384.
2.
See AzizPhilippe, Doctors of Death, Volume I (Ferni Publishers: Geneva1976), 18–19.
3.
LiftonRobert Jay, The Nazi Doctors (Basic Books: New York1986), 14.
4.
Aziz, op. cit., 75–76.
5.
Shapiro, Hayward, Guillemot, and Jayle, “Residents’ Experiences in, and Attitudes Toward, the Care of Persons With AIDS in Canada, France, and the United States,” in 268Journal of the American Medical Association (July 22/29, 1992), 510–515 at 510.
6.
SlomeMoulton, HuffineGorter, and Abrams, “Physicians’ Attitudes Toward Assisted Suicide in AIDS,” in 5Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1992), 712–718.
7.
ConleyJohn J., S.J., “Masks of Autonomy,” in 29Society (July/August 1992), 11–15 at 13.
8.
According to a post-election poll of California voters, while the general public voted 54% to 46% against the Hemlock Society's November 1992 ballot initiative, voters aged 65 and over opposed it 64% to 36% (Tarrance poll conducted November 3-4, 1992).
9.
“Among suicides, the number of patients with terminal illness ranges from 2% to 4%, compared to 1.4% in the general population,” reports suicidologist David C. Clark, M.D. He notes that depressive episodes in the seriously ill “are not less responsive to medication” than depression in others. Quoted in SkellyF., “Don't dismiss depression, physicians say,”American Medical News, September 7, 1992, p. 28. Also see: Conwell and Caine, “Rational Suicide and the Right to Die,” 325 New England Journal of Medicine (October 10, 1991), 1100-1103.
10.
Quoted in Detroit News, February 9, 1992.
11.
HumphryDerek, “Rational Suicide Among the Elderly,”22Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (Spring 1992), 125–129.
12.
HumphryDerek, “A Right to Exit?” (Letter), 22Hastings Center Report (November-December 1992), 44.
13.
“Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death (An Interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian)”, 11Free Inquiry (Fall 1991), 14–18 at 15.
