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Update 12: Volume 12, Number 1 — January-March 1998
Prescription death: Oregon struggles to implement new law
Professional PAS guidelines issued
A question of degree… and much more
Learning from the Dutch
Offering death to Oregon’s poor as comfort care
Ruling in Lee v. Oregon delayed
Final word on DEA ruling pending
Not Dead Yet protests Hemlock Society’s euthanasia policy
Commentary: Killing the Dying Is Not Palliative Care by Eric M. Chevlen, M.D.
Michigan: Battlelines forming over assisted-suicide issue
Merian’s Friends wants PAS on ballot and Kevorkian out of the picture
Kevorkian scorns timid prosecutors
Kevorkian’s master plan
The sorcerer’s apprentice
Death on demand
Michigan Legislature passes ban
Reported KEVORKIAN VICTIMS since last Update
Update 13: Volume 12, Number 2 — April-June 1998
Ruling flawed
Law restricts oversight
Bill to Ban Assisted Suicide Introduced in Congress
Assisted Suicide Battle Heats up in Michigan
Merian’s Friends submits initiative signatures
Opposition mounts
Hemlock Society helps launch campaign as Not Dead Yet protests
Poll Shows Support for Assisted Suicide Slipping
Kevorkian Adds Kidney Harvesting to Assisted Suicide Agenda
Doctors surveyed on induced deaths
Big drop in support for assisted suicide and euthanasia among cancer specialists
Pain not primary factor in assisted suicide or euthanasia requests
Cost-conscious doctors more likely to participate in assisted suicides
Researcher changes stand on assisted suicide
Canadian physician convicted of assisted suicide
Potassium chloride death still under investigation in Canada
British doctor charged with mercy killing
Australia’s Dr. Death developing suicide pill
Kevorkian’s attorney wants to be Michigan’s governor
Hawaiian panel urges legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide
Update 14: Volume 12, Number 3 — July-October 1998
Measure to legalize assisted suicide in Michigan on November ballot
A war of words
The campaign
A closer look at Proposal B
Shedding Light on Michigan’s Proposal B
Kevorkian’s lawyer runs as Democratic nominee for governor
Kevorkian to go on trial again
Oregon issues sketchy first report on assisted suicide deaths
Federal judge reluctantly dismisses suicide law case
Congressional bills to ban lethal prescriptions spark debate
Excerpts from House Judiciary Subcommittee Testimony on H.R. 4006
In favor of H.R. 4006
In opposition to H.R. 4006
Excerpts from Senate Judiciary Committee Testimony on S. 2151
In favor of S. 2151
In opposition to S. 2151
Doctors who induce patients’ deaths often don’t follow proposed guidelines
Attitudes of ALS patients and caregivers toward assisted suicide
8-step protocol proposed for evaluating patients who request assisted suicide
Hugh Finn dies in Virginia after food and water withdrawn
Mary Martin says disabled husband could be an organ donor
Hospice administrator helps healthy elderly woman die
Germany: Hospice accuses Medical Council of promoting assisted death
Australian doctor announces plans for euthanasia clinic
Chicago doctor on leave of absence after suspected euthanasia death
Not Dead Yet founder receives national award
Update 15: Volume 12, Number 4 — November-December 1998
Kevorkian faces murder and other charges
First jury conviction
Packaging murder
Kevorkian charged with murder
State to charge Kevorkian, too
Michigan voters overwhelmingly reject assisted suicide measure
Proposal B Vote demographics
Oregon adopts official policy to cover assisted suicide measure
Commentary: Futile Care: Who Decides? by Wesley J. Smith
Commentary: Productive in His Own Way by George T. Crane
Australian doctor claims 15 euthanasia deaths
Latimer’s light sentence overturned
Crown drops murder case against Canadian doctor
British psychiatrists polled on euthanasia
Coma patient’s experience highlights danger of euthanasia
British doctor pleads not guilty in euthanasia case
Dutch physician says euthanasia abuse widespread
New Zealand sets precedent in “futile care”case
Distress declared justification for assisted suicide and euthanasia
Dr. Eugene Turner charged with murder in death of infant
Hemlock co-founder says economics will drive acceptance of assisted suicide
Alaskan law prohibiting assisted suicide challenged in court
