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Conflicts of conscience. Hospice and assisted suicide
C S Campbell1, J Hare, P Matthews
1Oregon State University, USA.
The Hastings Center Report
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
Proposals to legalize assisted suicide challenge hospice's identity and integrity. In the wake of Measure 16, Oregon hospice programs must develop practical policies to balance traditional commitments not to hasten death and not to abandon patients with dying patients' legal right to request lethal prescriptions.