title: When is it right to die?
abstract: Advances in technology and the increased awareness and activism of health care consumers have brought a heightened focus to the ethical questions associated with end-of-life decision-making in health care. This attention is manifested in increased discussion, both in the literature and informally, of end-of-life issues; in increased numbers of advanced directives; and, recently in Canada, in the formation of the Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide whose charge was to develop policy on these issues. Nurses have valuable perspectives to add to this discourse.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ericksen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rodney
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Starzomski
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D002170:Canada; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D012297:Right to Die / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence