Those not referred by hospitals, or workers compensation or auto insurance programs, pay
out of pocket unless they have private insurance, which can cover as much as 80% of costs …

The suicide rate in the United States has risen nearly 40% since 2000. This increase is
puzzling because suicide rates had been falling for decades at the end of the 20th century …

The defeat of Proposal B by Michigan voters on November 3 was not a surprise. Merian's
Friends, the group sponsoring this measure to legalize physician-assisted suicide for the …

News be part of a strategy and it was up to jurisdictions to decide want they wanted to do,
but at least they started with the whole picture and worked down to their individual parts. In …

Heartsick over the loss of more than 800 Inuit who have seen no way through their pain
except to end their own lives, 1 Inuit Tapiirit Kanatami (ITK), the national Inuit political …

There are solid arguments in favor. No one will be coerced into taking a poison pill,
supporters insist. The “right to die” will apply only to those with six months to live or less …

This article is an overview of the problems with the legalization of assisted suicide as public
policy. The disability community's opposition to assisted suicide stems in part from factors …

Suicide and medical assistance in dying are complex phenomena. Suicide is “death caused
by self-directed injurious behavior with an intent to die as a result of the behavior.” 1 Medical …

Reducing the availability of highly lethal and commonly used suicide methods has been
associated with declines in suicide rates of as much as 30%–50% in other countries. The …

IN THE 1990S, THE US SUPREME COURT OBSERVED THAT “Americans are engaged in
an earnest and profound de-bate about the morality, legality, and practicality of physician …