Whose Right to Die?

Question 1

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/whose-right-to-die/304641/

Answer 1

Last spring the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals handed down momentous decisions striking down state laws in New York and Washington that forbid physician-assisted suicide.

Question 2

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/whose-right-to-die/304641/

Answer 2

In physician-assisted suicide, a doctor supplies a death-causing means, such as barbiturates, but the patient performs the act that brings about death.

Question 3

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/whose-right-to-die/304641/

Answer 3

Yes, polls show that a majority of Americans support physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia—indeed, have supported legalizing them for almost twenty-five years. But the support is neither strong nor deep.

Question 4

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/whose-right-to-die/304641/

Answer 4

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical

Question 5

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/whose-right-to-die/304641/

Answer 5

It is terminally ill patients with uncontrollable pain who are most likely to be interested in physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.