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...Services, 208 people took legal, lethal overdose prescriptions--out of 64,706 Oregonians who died of the same diseases. Last year 40 doctors wrote 60 lethal prescriptions, but only 37 were used. For many patients, the drugs are a form of insurance. They can take the medicine if the pain gets too bad or if they deteriorate to the point that they feel ready to go, but otherwise...
...surprised Oregonians in other ways too. Contrary to what was expected, most patients who seek the drugs say they are not doing it primarily to avoid eventual pain--something they appear to be willing to face down on their own. The very existence of the law, however, has focused Oregon doctors' attention on end-of-life care, spurring them to take extra training in complex pain management and encouraging them to refer patients to hospice care earlier than before. And, while critics feared that HMOs, insurance companies or relatives might subtly encourage suicide because it is cheaper than treatment, only...
...years ago, Sullivan, a retired bookkeeper, received a diagnosis of ALS--amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease--which paralyzes and eventually suffocates the patient. She asked her Portland doctors to prescribe lethal medicine, but even as her condition has deteriorated and her pain has increased, they have refused to discuss it. "They are young," she says. "They don't understand the pains of the elderly." She has a date with a new doctor this month but fears that by then her muscle constriction won't allow her to swallow--and self-administering the drugs...
...that her rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act were being violated and even claiming that Terri had recently communicated that she still wants to live. While the Schindlers and their supporters charged that Terri was being starved to death, her husband maintained that Terri was in absolutely no pain...
...suicide with his few friends, but he discussed the subject online. He argued about the courage in not only accepting death but also bringing about your own. Those who disagree about the virtue of suicide, he wrote, "have never dealt with people who HAVE faced the kind of pain that makes you [physically] sick at times, makes you so depressed you can't function, makes you so sad and overwhelmed with grief that eating a bullet or sticking your head in a noose [seems] welcoming." Months later, he wrote about slicing his wrist with a box cutter, "painting the floor...