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What the physician must take into account when approving the lethal medication is more than just the patient's state of mind and medical condition. The patient's family can and should be taken into consideration. Any patient whose family strongly and vocally opposes the physician-assisted suicide might have a more difficult time convincing a physician that the choice to euthanize is the right one.
In addition to supporting the rights of the patient and his or her family and also protecting the doctor from being persecuted for a physician-assisted suicide, an important parameter of the act is education. The Act demands that statistics and data be gathered as...
The Oregon state government and any interested think tank, university, or public policy organization to learn from the statistics gathered as a requisite part of the Death with Dignity Act. One of the main objectives of the Act is, therefore, to raise awareness of the real consequences of physician-assisted suicide: its impact on patients, doctors, families, and the community.
References
Death with Dignity Act National Center. Retrieved July 25, 2008 at http://www.deathwithdignity.org/
State of Oregon (nd). Death with Dignity Act. Retrieved July 25, 2008 at http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/pas
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