In the summer of 2008, I became involved in the care of a woman who had breast cancer. Her family requested that I end her life on a number of occasions. The request came about because she had expressed a wish to die, and because her stay on the palliative care unit did not last for days, as they had expected, but had stretched into weeks. These thoughts are an attempt to address some of the issues we discussed over those weeks…
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State of Oregon.Death with dignity act annual report year 10. Table 1. Characteristics and end-of-life care of 341 DWDA patients who died after ingesting a lethal dose of medication, Oregon 1998–2007.Portland: Government of Oregon, Department of Human Services; 2007. Available from: http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/pas/docs/year10.pdf
