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in the material that follows.
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A classic example is reported in the New York Times of
Jan 18, 1996 (page A12 ``National Report'') entitled ``Life and Death
Choice Splits a Family'' by Tamar Lewin
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- ...subject.
- see for example the chapter entitled ``Life Past
Reason'' in ``Life's Dominion'' by Ronald Dworkin, New York
Alfred Knopf, 1993 and a review of this book
by Rebecca Dressler, Hastings Center
Report, 6 (1995)
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- ...aging.
- ``Understanding
Dementia'', by Alan Jacques, (Churchill-Livingstone, 1992) is a carefully
written book on all phases of the subject; see also ``Dementia'' by J. L.
Cummings and D. F. Benson, (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992).
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Psychiatric Association (1987)
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- Hodkinson, H. M., Age and Dying, 1:223 (1972)
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Dementia Scale, G. Blessed et al., Br J Psychiatry, 1968;114:797
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- M. F. Folstein et al., J. Psychiatr. Res. 1975;12:189
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- G. McKahnn et al. Neur 1984;34:
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140:566 (1982)
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a hospital under medical supervision is not usually illegal.
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book, ``Final Exit'', by Derek Humphrey, The Hemlock Society, (1991)
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Note that
OREGON 16, presently being contested in the courts,
specifies the use of pills that the patient can legally take unassisted.
That solution is not possible for the mentally incompetent.
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- See, for example, the Hastings Center Report, Vol. 25
Number 3, (May-June 1995) on Assisted Suicide, with articles by Franklin
G. Miller and Howard Brody, Steven H. Miles, Herbert Hendin, and Alexander
M. Capron
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Dream of Life'', Simon and Schuster, (1993)
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