EUTHANASIA

YEAR
EUTHANASIA
AUTHOR SOURCE SELECTION ABSTRACT
2006 Imprisonment of Jack Kevorkian MD Ralph Slovenko JD, PhD psychiatry journal 7051 no abstract

2005 Evaluation in mercy killings Faye Girsh EdD psychiatry tapes 3145 Friends, relatives and physicians are often complicit in providing a hastened death for a suffering person. When they are apprehended it is often helpful for the defense or prosecution to understand the facts. The jury evaluates these factors as though they were law; whether the person who died was terminal, competent, made a request, suffering. The defendant s mental status, motivation, relationship to victim, and history are relevant. Examples from actual cases will be cited. Attendees will learn the specifics of evaluating factors in the commission of an illegal act for which there is generally favorable public sentiment. Helping the trier of fact to understand the circumstances under which the crime occurred can also raise public consciousness.

2001 Solve the organ shortage-let the bidding begin!
(82 pp, entire journal) Jack Kevorkian MD psychiatry journal 5145 This issue of the psychiatry journal is an interactive symposium revolving around a controversial paper submitted to the Journal by by Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Reactive arguments by 14 physicians follow, two of the doctors are transplant surgeons). . The "Commercialization of transplantable human organs"says Dr Kevorkian, "is the only and sure way to end the crisis of their supply." The operation of such an auction is described with a hypothetical example. As the organ shortage eases, bid prices should drop, resulting perhaps in eventual altruistic donation. Objections to commercialization based on ethics, bodily sanctity, inequity, pecuniary greed, and the slippery slope tocsin are nullified by cogent arguments and examples. Prohibitive national and state laws must be rescinded for the sake of more than 60,000 patients now on lengthening waiting lists.

1998 The doctor-patient relationship and assisted suicide- dynamic psychiatry N Gregory Hamilton MD psychiatry journal 6094 The authors draw upon psychodynamic psychiatry's literature on the nature of dependency and influence in the doctor-patient relationship to explore the issue of doctor-assisted suicide. The results of this review reveal that people are always both consciously and unconsciously influenceable and that their very sense of life being worth living depends upon a context of valuing relationships.

1998 Physician-assisted suicide-(15 commentators)(entire journal 127 pges) Group
psychiatry journal 8066 This is an entire roundtable issue of the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry involving 15 psychiatrists, psychologists, attorneys and others. This psychiatry journal article is

1998 Why psychiatrists should not participate in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide Robert Orr MD
Leigh Bishop MD psychiatry journal 10411 no abstract

1996 Euthanasia and assisted suicide- psychodynamics and psychosocial issues Samuel I Greenberg MD psychiatry tapes 1418 Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are central issues in a stormy debate that gives few signs of imminent resolution. The impasse results from opposing views that involve medical ethics, morals, politics, and especially the psychodynamics of physicians. Physicians tend to be rigid and compulsive, dedicated to saving lives and unable to stop, even when attempts are clearly futile. Others are narcissistic, some are afraid of death; a few are greedy and will continue treatment as long as Medicare pays. Participants will learn more about the psychodynamics of physicians and their attitudes about euthanasia and assisted suicide.

1996 Euthanasia and assisted suicide Samuel Greenberg MD psychiatry journal 531 The physician is urged to keep an open mind and learn from the experiences of doctors in other countries. The term "assisted suicide" is unfortunate and misleading; the goal is compassionate help for the dying. Change is necessary and urgent but will only come about through the best efforts of legislators, the clergy, the general public and the medical profession.

1995 Death Angels-physician-assisted suicide Glidden D
Imperi LL psychiatry journal 527 The question of legally-sanctioned, physician assisted suicide needs to be placed within an historical and cultural context. While technical advice regarding taking one's own life should be available to those in need of contemplating suicide, physicians need not be the conveyers of such information. If assistance is needed in facilitating suicide, this ought to be the responsibility of familial friends and support groups rather than physicians.

1995 Physician-assisted suicide revisited Lillian Imperi MD psychiatry journal 528 Questionnaires on physician-assisted suicide were sent to forensic psychiatrists belonging to the American College of Forensic Psychiatry, and forensic psychologists belonging to the American College of Forensic Psychology. One hundred twenty-nine questionnaires were returned by 42 psychiatrists, 85 psychologists and 2 "other" professionals (unidentified). I will comment only on the responses by psychiatrists and psychologists in the remarks on the survey.

1993 Physician-assisted suicide - Chronicle of the death of Susan Joyce Williams Jack Kevorkian MD psychiatry journal 5147
"Dear Dr. Kevorkian,

My name is Susan J. Williams. I was born September 17, 1939. I was diagnosed as having MS in January, 1980. Since then I have never gone into remission. I'm asking you to help me commit suicide. My husband is 81-years-old. He is not mentally nor physically able to care for me anymore. I'm having my son write this because I'm not able to write any more. If there is anything I can say to help you I will do so. I'm not doing this for any insurance money because I don't have any. And I'm not doing this for the holidays, and I've been thinking about this for about 4 years.

Sincerely yours, Susan J. Williams. P.S. Please call."

1992 Fail-safe model for justifiable medically-assisted suicide (entire journal) Jack Kevorkian MD psychiatry journal 1383 Dr. Jack Kevorkian sent to the American College of Forensic Psychiatry his manuscript on "Medicide." and we published it. Dr Kevorkian writes: "Physician-assisted suicide always has been ethical, beginning in Hippocratic Greece. Its stigmatization as a taboo by subsequent inflexible and harshly punitive religious doctrines is contrary to the prevailing mores of Western society and is responsible for the current right to die controversy. Based on the premise of a new medical specialty, the proposed system is elaborated in detail to describe a mandatory and intricate interplay of cross-checking consultations and unabridged documentation involving patients, kin, friends, physicians, and other paraprofessional experts. The utility and efficiency of the proposed system are clearly demonstrated by means of a hypothetical case based on the author's actual experience.: (90 pp journal)

1992 Prosecution and persecution of Dr. Death and his Mercy Machine Geoffrey N. Fieger JD psychiatry tapes 514 Geoffrey Fieger, Dr. Kevorkian's attorney, discusses legal and ethical issues of "Medicide," as well as as the physician-assisted deaths of Sherry Miller and Marjorie Wantz.

1992 Ethics in contemporary medicine: euthanasia and including the autopsy report of Marjorie Wantz in the Kevorkian case Gerald G. Pope, MD psychiatry tapes 1940 no abstract at this time

YEAR	EUTHANASIA	AUTHOR	SOURCE	SELECTION	ABSTRACT
2006	Imprisonment of Jack Kevorkian MD	Ralph Slovenko JD, PhD	psychiatry journal	7051	no abstract
2005	Evaluation in mercy killings	Faye Girsh EdD	psychiatry tapes	3145	Friends, relatives and physicians are often complicit in providing a hastened death for a suffering person. When they are apprehended it is often helpful for the defense or prosecution to understand the facts. The jury evaluates these factors as though they were law; whether the person who died was terminal, competent, made a request, suffering. The defendant s mental status, motivation, relationship to victim, and history are relevant. Examples from actual cases will be cited. Attendees will learn the specifics of evaluating factors in the commission of an illegal act for which there is generally favorable public sentiment. Helping the trier of fact to understand the circumstances under which the crime occurred can also raise public consciousness.
2001	Solve the organ shortage-let the bidding begin! (82 pp, entire journal)	Jack Kevorkian MD	psychiatry journal	5145	This issue of the psychiatry journal is an interactive symposium revolving around a controversial paper submitted to the Journal by by Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Reactive arguments by 14 physicians follow, two of the doctors are transplant surgeons). . The "Commercialization of transplantable human organs"says Dr Kevorkian, "is the only and sure way to end the crisis of their supply." The operation of such an auction is described with a hypothetical example. As the organ shortage eases, bid prices should drop, resulting perhaps in eventual altruistic donation. Objections to commercialization based on ethics, bodily sanctity, inequity, pecuniary greed, and the slippery slope tocsin are nullified by cogent arguments and examples. Prohibitive national and state laws must be rescinded for the sake of more than 60,000 patients now on lengthening waiting lists.
1998	The doctor-patient relationship and assisted suicide- dynamic psychiatry	N Gregory Hamilton MD	psychiatry journal	6094	The authors draw upon psychodynamic psychiatry's literature on the nature of dependency and influence in the doctor-patient relationship to explore the issue of doctor-assisted suicide. The results of this review reveal that people are always both consciously and unconsciously influenceable and that their very sense of life being worth living depends upon a context of valuing relationships.
1998	Physician-assisted suicide-(15 commentators)(entire journal 127 pges)	Group	psychiatry journal	8066	This is an entire roundtable issue of the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry involving 15 psychiatrists, psychologists, attorneys and others. This psychiatry journal article is
1998	Why psychiatrists should not participate in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide	Robert Orr MD Leigh Bishop MD	psychiatry journal	10411	no abstract
1996	Euthanasia and assisted suicide- psychodynamics and psychosocial issues	Samuel I Greenberg MD	psychiatry tapes	1418	Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are central issues in a stormy debate that gives few signs of imminent resolution. The impasse results from opposing views that involve medical ethics, morals, politics, and especially the psychodynamics of physicians. Physicians tend to be rigid and compulsive, dedicated to saving lives and unable to stop, even when attempts are clearly futile. Others are narcissistic, some are afraid of death; a few are greedy and will continue treatment as long as Medicare pays. Participants will learn more about the psychodynamics of physicians and their attitudes about euthanasia and assisted suicide.
1996	Euthanasia and assisted suicide	Samuel Greenberg MD	psychiatry journal	531	The physician is urged to keep an open mind and learn from the experiences of doctors in other countries. The term "assisted suicide" is unfortunate and misleading; the goal is compassionate help for the dying. Change is necessary and urgent but will only come about through the best efforts of legislators, the clergy, the general public and the medical profession.
1995	Death Angels-physician-assisted suicide	Glidden D Imperi LL	psychiatry journal	527	The question of legally-sanctioned, physician assisted suicide needs to be placed within an historical and cultural context. While technical advice regarding taking one's own life should be available to those in need of contemplating suicide, physicians need not be the conveyers of such information. If assistance is needed in facilitating suicide, this ought to be the responsibility of familial friends and support groups rather than physicians.
1995	Physician-assisted suicide revisited	Lillian Imperi MD	psychiatry journal	528	Questionnaires on physician-assisted suicide were sent to forensic psychiatrists belonging to the American College of Forensic Psychiatry, and forensic psychologists belonging to the American College of Forensic Psychology. One hundred twenty-nine questionnaires were returned by 42 psychiatrists, 85 psychologists and 2 "other" professionals (unidentified). I will comment only on the responses by psychiatrists and psychologists in the remarks on the survey.
1993	Physician-assisted suicide - Chronicle of the death of Susan Joyce Williams	Jack Kevorkian MD	psychiatry journal	5147	"Dear Dr. Kevorkian, My name is Susan J. Williams. I was born September 17, 1939. I was diagnosed as having MS in January, 1980. Since then I have never gone into remission. I'm asking you to help me commit suicide. My husband is 81-years-old. He is not mentally nor physically able to care for me anymore. I'm having my son write this because I'm not able to write any more. If there is anything I can say to help you I will do so. I'm not doing this for any insurance money because I don't have any. And I'm not doing this for the holidays, and I've been thinking about this for about 4 years. Sincerely yours, Susan J. Williams. P.S. Please call."
1992	Fail-safe model for justifiable medically-assisted suicide (entire journal)	Jack Kevorkian MD	psychiatry journal	1383	Dr. Jack Kevorkian sent to the American College of Forensic Psychiatry his manuscript on "Medicide." and we published it. Dr Kevorkian writes: "Physician-assisted suicide always has been ethical, beginning in Hippocratic Greece. Its stigmatization as a taboo by subsequent inflexible and harshly punitive religious doctrines is contrary to the prevailing mores of Western society and is responsible for the current right to die controversy. Based on the premise of a new medical specialty, the proposed system is elaborated in detail to describe a mandatory and intricate interplay of cross-checking consultations and unabridged documentation involving patients, kin, friends, physicians, and other paraprofessional experts. The utility and efficiency of the proposed system are clearly demonstrated by means of a hypothetical case based on the author's actual experience.: (90 pp journal)
1992	Prosecution and persecution of Dr. Death and his Mercy Machine	Geoffrey N. Fieger JD	psychiatry tapes	514	Geoffrey Fieger, Dr. Kevorkian's attorney, discusses legal and ethical issues of "Medicide," as well as as the physician-assisted deaths of Sherry Miller and Marjorie Wantz.
1992	Ethics in contemporary medicine: euthanasia and including the autopsy report of Marjorie Wantz in the Kevorkian case	Gerald G. Pope, MD	psychiatry tapes	1940	no abstract at this time