title: The constitution and hastening inevitable death.
abstract: The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of terminally ill persons to hasten their inevitable death. In prohibiting physicians from prescribing lethal medications by which such patients might hasten death, Michigan's ban on "assisted suicide" unconstitutionally imposes an "undue burden" on the exercise of that right.
authors.affiliation: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Sedler
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D035082:Federal Government; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011057:Politics; D012297:Right to Die / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D035521:Supreme Court Decisions; D014481:United States