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Am Pub Health Ass’n, Patient Self-determination at the End of Life. 2008. http://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy/policysearch/ default.htm?id=1372 (last visited June 10, 2010); Am Med Women’s Ass’n, Aid-In-Dying. 2007. http://www.amwa-doc.org/ gallery2-219/AidinDying (last visited June 10, 2010) (AMWA supports the passage of aid-in-dying laws which empower mentally competent, terminally ill patients and protect participating physicians, such as . . . the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.); Am Med Student Ass’n, Principles Regarding Physician Aid in Dying. 2008. http://www.amsa.org/AMSA/Libraries/Exec_Docs/2009_AMSA_ Preamble_Purposes_and_Principles.sflb.ashx (last visited June 10, 2010); Am Coll of Legal Med, Aclm Policy on Aid-in-Dying. 2008. http://www.aclm.org/resources/amicus_briefs/ACLM% 20Aid%20in%20Dying%20Policy.pdf (last visited June 10, 2010). (The ACLM recognizes patient autonomy and the right of a mentally competent, though terminally ill, person to hasten what might otherwise be objectively considered a protracted, undignified, or painful death.).
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Farberman: Terminal Illness and Hastened Death Requests: The Important Role of the Mental Health Professional, 28 Prof Psychol: Research and Prac544 (1997)(work group of The American Psychological Association).
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See AAHPM Position Statement, Physician-Assisted Death. http://www.aahpm.org/positions/suicide.html (last visited June 10, 2010). (The term PAD is utilized in this document with the belief that it captures the essence of the process in a more accurately descriptive fashion than the more emotionally charged designation Physician-assisted Suicide).
