New doctor-assisted suicide law takes effect in Washington The interviews with registered nurses and social workers at Oregon hospices showed the dilemmas they face in serving terminal patients who wish to speed their deaths.
The ethics of assisted suicide Part 1 Eleven days from now, a state law will go into effect that allows terminally ill patients the option of hastening their death with lethal doses of self-administered drugs.
The ethics of assisted suicide Part 2 To the majority of Washington voters, Initiative 1000 is a humane approach to end-of-life health care. To Rose Crumb, 83, the soon-to-be-enacted Death with Dignity law is physician-assisted suicide.
