No second chances

International experience shows legal euthanasia is never just for “exceptional” cases

October 21, 2013 | by Derek Miedema , Researcher
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Endnotes

  1. CBC News, Montreal. (2013, June 12). Quebec tables bill on medically assisted death. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/06/12/montrealquebec-
    palliative-sedation-assisted-suicide-dying-with-dignity-legislation.html
  2. Oregon Public Health Division. (2012). Oregon’s death with dignity act (1999 to 2012). Retrieved from http://public.health.oregon.gov/ProviderPartnerResources/
    EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAct/Pages/ar-index.aspx.With author’s calculations.
  3. Ibid. With author’s calculations.
  4. Portland State University. (2013). 2012 Annual population report tables. Retrieved from http://www.pdx.edu/prc/sites/www.pdx.edu.prc/files/Annual Pop Report Tables2012_
    web97Excel.xls. With author’s calculations.
  5. 2009 to 2012 reports: Washington State Department of Health. (2012). 2009 to 2012
    Death with dignity act reports. Retrieved from www.doh.wa.gov/YouandYourFamily/
    IllnessandDisease/DeathwithDignityAct.aspx. With author’s calculations.
  6. 2009 population: Washington State Office of Financial Management. (2002). April 1
    intercensal estimates of population and housing: 1990-2000. Table retrieved from http://
    www.ofm.wa.gov/pop/april1/hseries/ofm_april1_intercensal_estimates_1990-2000.xlsx
    2012 population: (2012). April 1 post censal estimates of population: 1960-present. Table
    retrieved from http://www.ofm.wa.gov/pop/april1/hseries/ofm_april1_postcensal_estimates_
    pop_1960-present.xlsx. With author’s calculations.
  7. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, B.D., Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, A., Penning, C., de Jong-Krul, G.J.F, van Delden, J.J.M., and van der Heide, A. (2012, September). Trends in end-of-life practices before and after the enactment of the euthanasia law in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2010: a repeated cross-sectional survey. The Lancet, Vol. 380, Issue 9845, Pages 908-915. See Table 1, p. 912. (With author’s calculations.)
  8. 2005 and 2010 population: Statistics Netherlands. (2013). Population and population dynamics; month, quarter and year. Retrieved from http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?DM=SLEN&PA=37943eng&D1=7&D2=186,299-315&LA=EN&HDR=T&STB=G1&VW=T. With author’s calculations.