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Oregon's Physician-Assisted Suicide Legislation: Troubling Issues for Families

Virginia P. Tilden, R.N., D.N.Sc., F.A.A.N.

Melinda A. Lee, M.D.

Oregon Health Sciences University

An individual autonomy framework, rather than a family framework, has prevailed in the national debate about physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. However, the separation of individual andfamily is artificial in the context of life-threatening illness. This article describesfamily issues when terminally ill patients consider physician-assisted suicide. Issues includefamily roles, motives, disagreements, and grief; the problems of misuse of a lethal prescriptive; and failed suicide attempts. For multiple reasons described, thefamilyperspectiveis needed in debates about physician-assisted suicide.

Journal of Family Nursing, Vol. 3, No. 2, 120-129 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/107484079700300202
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