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When to help a patient die

By Judy Rakowsky, Harvard Correspondent / December 11, 2011

Legal analysts at a Harvard Medical School forum differ over whether a law allowing death with dignity or assisted suicide for terminally ill patients is right for Massachusetts. But they agreed that similar laws in Oregon and Washington have not proven to be a “slippery slope” that endangered vulnerable patients.

Tags: Assisted death/Assisted suicide/Barbara Coombs Lee/Charles H. Baron/George Annas/Harvard Medical School/Marcia Angell/Martha Coakley/Physician-assisted death/Terminally ill/U.S. Supreme Court
Categories: Law, National & World Affairs