PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Martin L. Smith
AU  - James Orlowski
AU  - Charles Radey
AU  - Giles Scofield
TI  - A good death: is euthanasia the answer?
DP  - 1992 Jan 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 99--109
VI  - 59
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/59/1/99.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/59/1/99.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1992 Jan 01; 59
AB  - Euthanasia—particularly active voluntary euthanasia—and assisted suicide are subjects of continuing controversy. Historical attitudes, current concerns, the situation in the Netherlands, and the positions of various medical associations are reviewed. Major arguments for and against active euthanasia are presented, with special consideration to the role that health care providers might be asked to perform should active euthanasia and assisted suicide be given societal sanction. The authors conclude that better pain management and A willingness to provide care within already established ethical and legal guidelines, not the legalization of active euthanasia and assisted suicide, are the appropriate responses to current proposals for assistance in dying.