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Hospice and Physician-Assisted Death: Collaboration, Compliance, and Complicity
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 40, Number 5, September-October 2010
- pp. 26-35
- 10.1353/hcr.2010.0016
- Article
- Additional Information
Although the overwhelming majority of terminally ill patients in Oregon who seek a physician's aid in dying are enrolled in hospice programs, hospices do not take a major role in this practice. An examination of fifty-five Oregon hospices reveals that both legal and moral questions prevent hospices from collaborating fully with physician-assisted death.