Sentences with phrase «physician assisted suicide»

Legislation that would legalize physician assisted suicide in New York is unlikely to be taken up by state lawmakers in 2017, legislative leaders indicated.

She was involved in the successful campaign against legalizing physician assisted suicide in 2012.

BUFFALO (WBEN)- At 10 a.m., doctors, patients, caregivers and advocates for people with disabilities will meet in the Legislative Office Building in Albany to show opposition to a bill that would repeal New York's ban on physician assisted suicide.

Nobody should be surprised at the prevalence of depression and anxiety in Oregon patients requesting physician assisted suicide.

Although physician assisted suicide currently only affects those of us who are in palliative care, it's an issue that will affect all of us at some point in our lives, or at least as we approach the end of it.

On 26 April, 2011 the BC Civil Liberties Association, along with a number of representative plaintiffs, commenced a constitutional challenge to Canada's prohibition on physician assisted suicide.

Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: Killing or Caring?

While her condition was categorized as a psychiatric disability, her cognitive ability to consent to physician assisted suicide was unimpaired.