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1 CALIFORNIA END of LIFE OPTION ACT
On October 5, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act (Assembly Bill No. 15, Eggman, End of Life) into law. The provisions took effect on June 9, 2016

2 THE law allows a California resident with a terminal illness and who complies with specified criteria to end his or life through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose.

3 From: The Hippocratic Oath
I WILL give no deadly drug to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel. Οὐ δώσω δὲ οὐδὲ φάρμακον οὐδενὶ αἰτηθεὶς θανάσιμον. Jusjurandum, ed. by É. Littré Oeuvres Completes d’Hippocrate, vols. 4 (Paris: Baillie 1844; Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1962) pp TLG canon

4 From: The Epidemics of Hippocrates, 1.2.5.
IN regard to disease strive for two things: [1] To HELP; [2] or [at least] to DO NO HARM. ἀσκέειν, περὶ τὰ νουσήματα, δύο, ὠφελέειν, ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν. De morbis popularibus (Epidemiae), ed. by É. Littré Oeuvres Completes d’Hippocrate, vol. 2  (Paris: Baillie 1840 repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert 1961). TLG canon tr. L. Dysinger, OSB

5 BARBITURATE (Secobarbitol or Phenobarbitol)

6 DDMP1 and DDMP2 Diazepam Digoxin Morphine Propranalol

7 OTTOWA 3-DRUG PROTOCOL

8 FOR the first time in our tradition there was a complete separation between killing and curing. Throughout the primitive world the doctor and the sorcerer tended to be the same person. He with the power to kill had the power to cure, including specially the undoing of his own activities. He who had the power to cure would also be able to kill.

9 With the Greeks… the distinction was made clear
With the Greeks… the distinction was made clear. One profession… [was] to be dedicated completely to life under all circumstance, regardless of rank, age, or intellect—the life of a slave, the life of the Emperor, the life of a foreign man, the life of a defective child…. This is a priceless possession which we cannot affair to tarnish.

10 But society is always attempting to make the physician into a killer—to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient…. It is the duty of society to protect the physician from such requests. Margaret Mead, on the Hippocratic Oath. Quoted in Psychiatry and Ethics (1972), Maurice Levine, M.D., George Braziller, pub., ISBN ISBN pp , [2] citing (notes, p. 377) a personal communication from Margaret Mead, 1961.


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