48 Carol Gill, Ph.D., personal communication to the author, April 6, 2019, and Carol J. Gill, Ph.D., “Disability,
Constructed Vulnerability, and Socially Conscious Palliative Care.”
49 Susan D. Block and J. Andrew Billings, “Patient Requests to Hasten Death: Evaluation and Management in
Terminal Care,” Archive of Internal Medicine 154, no.18 (1994): 2039–47.
50 Erin Barnett, “A Family Struggle: Is Mom Capable of Choosing to Die?,” The Oregonian, Oct. 17, 1999.
51 Patients Rights Council, “Facts about Hemlock* and Caring Friends,” http://www.patientsrightscouncil
.org/site/hemlock- and- caring- friends/. “In mid 2003, the Hemlock Society changed its name to ‘End- of-Life
Choices.’ At the end of 2004, End- of-Life Choices merged with Compassion in Dying. The organization is now
known as ‘Compassion and Choices.’”
52 Peter Goodwin, “Charting a New Course, Building on a Solid Foundation, Imagining a Brighter Future for
America’s Terminally Ill,” transcript of presentation at 13th National Hemlock Society Biennial Conference,
January 11, 2003, San Diego, California. Also, Compassion in Dying of Oregon, Summary of Hastened
Deaths, data attached to Compassion in Dying of Oregon’s IRS Form 990 for 2003. Also, Dr. Elizabeth Goy
of Oregon Health and Science University was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry,
School of Medicine. In 2004, members of the British House of Lords traveled to Oregon seeking information
regarding Oregon’s assisted suicide law for use in their deliberations about a similar proposal that was under
consideration in Parliament. They held closed- door hearings in which Goy spoke on December 9 and 10, 2004
and published the proceedings on April 4, 2005. House of Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for
the Terminally Ill Bill, Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill [HL] Vol. II: Evidence (London: The Stationery
Office Limited, 2005), 291, Question 768, available at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/
ldselect/ldasdy/86/86ii.pdf (accessed January 29, 2019). And Kenneth R. Stevens, Jr., MD, The Proportion
of Oregon Assisted Suicides by Compassion & Choices Organization, Physicians for Compassionate Care
Educational Foundation, March 4, 2009, http://www.pccef.org/DOWNLOADS/AssistedSuicidesbyCC2009
report.pdf.
53 This is documented extensively in Chapter3.
54 William Yardley, “First Death for Washington Assisted-Suicide Law”, New York Times, May 23, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/us/23suicide.html?_r=0.
55 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
56 “Sawyer Arraigned on State Fraud Charges,” KTVZ.com, Sept. 7, 2011, https://www.ktvz.com/news/crime/
sawyers- go- to- prison- victims- see- justice- but- money/68441556.
57 Oregon Death with Dignity Act, 2018 Data Summary.
58 Carol Gill, Ph.D., personal communication to the author, April 6, 2019, and Carol J. Gill, Ph.D., “Disability,
Constructed Vulnerability, and Socially Conscious Palliative Care.”
59 Oregon Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), Or. Rev. Stat. 127.800 et seq., https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/
PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EVALUATIONRESEARCH/DEATHWITHDIGNITYACT/Pages/ors.aspx.
60 NCD, “Cover Memorandum.”
61 S. H. Miles, “Physicians and Their Patients’ Suicides,” JAMA 271 (1994): 1786–88.
62 NCD, “Assisted Suicide: A Disability Perspective.”
63 Carol Gill, Ph.D., personal communication to the author, April 6, 2019, and Carol J. Gill, Ph.D., “Disability,
Constructed Vulnerability, and Socially Conscious Palliative Care.”
64 John R. Bach, “Ventilator Use by Muscular Dystrophy Association Patients,” Archives of Physical Medicine
Rehabilitation 73, no. 2 (February 1992),
https://www.archives- pmr.org/article/0003-9993(92)90098-H/fulltext.
65 Carol Gill, Ph.D., personal communication to the author, April 6, 2019, and Carol J. Gill, Ph.D., “Disability,
Constructed Vulnerability, and Socially Conscious Palliative Care.”
66 Hendin and Foley, “Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon,” 1627–28.
67 “Oregon State Assisted Suicide Reports Substantiate Critics’ Concerns,” Not Dead Yet, October 4, 2016,
http://notdeadyet.org/2016/10/oregon- state- assisted- suicide- reports- substantiate- critics- concerns.html,
accessed February 1, 2019.
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