Physicians Ought Not Kill

Kaveny M. Cathleen “Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and the Law.” Theological Studies (Mardi, 1997), 58(1): 124–148.

Gula Richard , What are They Saying about Euthanasia? (NY: Paulist Press, 1986), 1.

Kenneth Overberg S.J. , Mercy or Murder? (Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward, 1993), 3.

Declaration on Euthanasia, 140-150 reprinted in Overberg, 143.

Brock Dean , “Physician-Assisted Suicide is Sometimes Morally Justified,” in Robert Weir (ed.), Physician-Assisted Suicide (Indiana University Press, 1997), 86103; John Ladd, “Positive and Negative Euthanasia,” in Michael Bayles and Dallas High, Medical Treatment of the Dying: Moral Issues (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1983), 105-127; Daniel Maguire, Death by Choice (Garden City, 1984); James Rachels, “Active and Passive Euthanasia,” New England Journal of Medicine, (1975). 292: 78-80; also his The End of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 106-150.

CBS's 60 Minutes airing of Kevorkian killing his patient by lethal injection, Nov. 22, 1998.

“A Fail-Safe Model for Justifiable Medically Assisted Suicide,” 263–295, in Michael Uhlmann (ed.), Last Rights? (Gr. Rapids: William Eerdmans Publishing Col., 1998), 263.

Paris John , “Overview: Active Euthanasia,” 3–20 in Overberg, 8.

Article reprinted in Uhlmann, 317–318.

“Death and Dignity: The Case of Diane,” (1991) 324: 691–694.

Correspondence : “Death and Dignity: The Case of Diane,” Ibid. (1991), 325: 658–660.

(New York: Norton , 1993) excerpted in Uhlmann as “Death and Dignity A: The Case of Diane,” 319-342, p. 328.

(Secaucus, NJ: Hemlock Society, 1991); (NY: Dell Trade Publications, 1996, 2^nd ed.).

Tauer Carol , “Philosophical Debate and Public Policy on Physician-Assisted Suicide” in Ronald Hamel & Edwin Dubose, 9eds.) Must We Suffer Our Way to Death? (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1996), 47.

Life at Risk, A Chronicle of Euthanasia Trends in America, (NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, January, 1999) 9: 1.

See in Uhlmann the extensive excerpts of the federal court decisions and the Supreme Court decision, 475-531, 599-633 respectively. For commentary see Kaveny M. Cathleen , n. 1 above.

Borst-Eilers Else , “Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Brief Historical review and Present Situation,” in Misbin Robert (ed.), Euthanasia: The Good of the Patient, the Good of Society (Frederick, MD: University Publishing Group, Inc., 1992), 5568.

Capron Alexander , “Death and the Court,” Hastings Center Report, (September-October, 1997), 27(5): 25.

“Physician assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician's role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.” In Uhlmann, 406.

In Uhlmann, 402.

In Uhlmann, 402.

Dworkin Ronald , Nagel Thomas , “Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers’ Brief,” The New York Review of Books, (March 27, 1997), 41–47.

Dworkin Ronald , Nagel Thomas , “Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers’ Brief,” The New York Review of Books, (March 27, 1997), 45.

Quote in M. Kaveny Cathleen , “Assisted Suicide, the Supreme Court, and the Constitutive Function of the Law,” Hastings Center Report, (September-October, 1997), 27(5): 32.

Bottum See J. , “Debriefing the Philosophers,” First Things, (June-July, 1997), 74: 26–30.

Kaveny , “Assisted Suicide, the Supreme Court…,” 32.

May William , “Moral and Religious Reservations about Euthanasia,” in Hamel & DuBose, 103–119.

Capron , 28; Kaveny, “Assisted Suicide, the Supreme Court…,” 33.

For this analysis of power, I rely on the eloquent and insightful essays of Leon Kass, especially his “Courting Death: Assisted Suicide, Doctors, and the Law,” Commentary, (December, 1996), 102(6): 17–29; “Why Doctors Must Not Kill,” in Uhlmann, 297-306; see also his, “Death With Dignity and the Sanctity of Life,” Commentary, 199-222.

Kass , “Why Doctors…,” 302–303.

I am indebted here to Callahan Daniel , “‘Aid-In-Dying’: The Social Dimensions,” in Overberg, 171–182. His essay was written to counter Proposition 119, the Washington State initiative for physician-assisted suicide.

I am indebted here to Callahan Daniel , “‘Aid-In-Dying’: The Social Dimensions,” in Overberg, 174.

I am indebted here to Callahan Daniel , “‘Aid-In-Dying’: The Social Dimensions,” in Overberg, 175.

Gevers J.K M , “What the Law Allows: Legal Aspects of Euthanasia on Request in the Netherlands,” in Misbin, 69–76.