Wins for Assisted Suicide and at Least One Taxpayer
Here’s our round up of the past month’s developments in estate planning and elder law. We touch on elder law issues from assisted suicide to income taxation of trusts and beyond. See an item that might be of interest? Let us know what you think. Another State OKs Assisted Suicide Maine became the latest state […]
Is Physician Assisted Suicide an Option for Terminally Ill Arizonans?
Physician assisted suicide is now an option for terminally ill patients in several US states. Is Arizona one of those states? Is it likely to join the list soon? What do we mean by physician assisted suicide? First, some definition of terms. Doctors, of course, are usually in the business of saving lives and curing […]
Montana High Court Approves “Death With Dignity” Request
JANUARY 4, 2010 VOLUME 17, NUMBER 1 Retired truck driver Robert Baxter, a Billings, Montana, resident, was dying of leukemia. He wanted to be able to choose the time and manner of his own death, and he turned to his physicians. He asked for a lethal dose of medication; his doctors sympathized, but declined to […]
Court Strikes Down Ashcroft Directive on Assisted Suicide
MAY 31, 2004 VOLUME 11, NUMBER 48 In 1994 and again in 1997, Oregon voters approved the first law permitting physician-assisted suicide in the U.S. In each of the six years since the law was implemented, about 30 terminally ill Oregon residents have used the “Death With Dignity” Act to end their lives with the […]
Oregon Doctor Disciplined For Inadequate Treatment Of Pain
OCTOBER 4, 1999 VOLUME 7, NUMBER 14 Adequate control of pain, especially at the end of life, is a key issue in modern medical care. Increasingly doctors, nurses, patients, family members and advocates realize that death need not be physically painful. The most recent demonstration of that consensus among medical care providers comes from the […]
