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Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Cases and Commentaries (IN: Drug use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, edited by M P Battin & A G Lipman)
Valente S M~~Saunders J M~~et al
7 cases are presented in this chapter. Each is followed by commentaries from invited experts. The cases provide a context for discussing the clinical & ethical issues involved in assisted suicide & euthanasia. The cases involve a 40-year-old male architect, a female in her late 50s with cancer, a 50-year-old male with Huntington’s Chorea, a 39-year-old male physician with advanced AIDS, a 44-year-old male with chronic renal disease, a male diagnosed with HIV; & a 14-year-old female with cancer.