Death With Dignity and Suicide Compared

The debate about physician-assisted death (PAD) is as old as medicine itself. 1 Manning M. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Killing or Caring?. Paulist Press, 2001 Google Scholar The Death With Dignity Act (DWDA), that became active in Oregon in 1997, was the first of such acts legalizing Physician Assisted Death in the US. This was before several countries in Europe, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa passed similar acts. In this...