Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also said regulation will remove some public fears of physician-assisted suicide...
...landmark bill permitting and regulating physician-assisted suicide and authored by a group that includes two members of the Harvard community will be introduced into the Massachusetts legislature this year...
...bill defines those eligible for physician-assisted suicide as people suffering from terminal illnesses and "unbearable pain...
Courts in California and Michigan have recently ruled that physician-assisted suicide is legal, decisions which Wanzer said will give impetus to the assisted suicide movement in Massachusetts...
DANIAL DANZER KNEW HE WAS DYING of AIDS. Of all the fears he faced, losing his mind was the worst. When his faculties started to fade, he wanted to hasten his death. But his doctor could not help; Washington State law prohibited physicians from assisting the terminally ill in committing suicide. So Danzer stopped taking his insulin. After five days of convulsions, he finally died. Says his partner, Jeff Halsey: "He might have been spared some of his greatest pain and retained some of his dignity if he and his physician had received help from a compassionate code of laws...