A Right to Palliative Care? What the United States Supreme Court Did and Did Not Say in the Physician-Assisted Suicide Cases

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Lois Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide

Physician-Assisted Death: Can Philosophical Bioethics Aid Social Policy?

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-347
Author(s):  
MARK G. KUCZEWSKI
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
Assisted Death ◽  
Left Behind

The debate regarding physician-assisted suicide continues in our society. Despite the recent opinions of the United States Supreme Court, this issue is unlikely to go away anytime soon. For a variety of reasons, this debate is now conducted in the legalistic terms of individual rights and liberties. As a result, perhaps we philosophers have been left behind. This is now a matter for the legal arena and philosophy is likely to be irrelevant. I would like to suggest otherwise for two reasons.

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