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The first significant drive to legalize assisted suicide in the United States arose in the early twentieth century. In a 2004 article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Brown University historian Jacob M. Appel documented extensive political debate over legislation to legalize physician-assisted death in Iowa and Ohio in 1906.
Archives of Suicide Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering suicidology. It was established in 1995 and is published by Routledge . It is the official journal of the International Academy of Suicide Research , both of which were founded by Dutch psychologist René Duekstra .
Assisted suicide (also called physician-assisted suicide (PAS)) describes the process by which a person, with the help of others, takes drugs to end their life. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This medical practice is an end-of-life measure for a person suffering a painful , terminal illness . [ 3 ]
The journal covers scientific research on suicidal and other life-threatening behaviors, including risk factors for suicide, ethical issues in intervention research, and mental health needs of those bereaved by suicide. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 1.333, ranking it 45th out of 125 journals ...
Although the bill was introduced not long ago in Springfield, it has already gotten the attention of opposing organizations.
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Gorsuch further characterized assisted suicide as, "essentially a right to consensual homicide." [6] He said that the U.S. should "retain existing law [banning assisted suicide and euthanasia] on the basis that human life is fundamentally and inherently valuable, and that the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong." [7]
Vacco v. Quill, 521 U.S. 793 (1997), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the right to die.It ruled 9–0 that a New York ban on physician-assisted suicide was constitutional, and preventing doctors from assisting their patients, even those terminally ill and/or in great pain, was a legitimate state interest that was well within the authority of the state ...