Year: 2000 Source: Hastings Center Report, v.30, no.3, (May/June 2000), p.4-5 SIEC No: 20030905

These two letters to the editor are responding to T Salem’s article “Physician-Assisted Suicide: Promoting Autonomy – or Medicalizing Suicide?” Some of Salem’s arguements concerning the autonomy of patients at the end of life are examined, & physician-assisted suicide’s relationship with “ordinary” suicide is questioned.