title: Dollars & death. Money changes everything. Now it's entering the debate over the right to die--with explosive results.
abstract: Physician-assisted suicide is out of the shadows--a raging debate being carried all the way to the Supreme Court. But what role does money play for people who ask their doctors for help in hastening death? An increasingly potent one, say alarmed ethicists and scholars.
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Bilchik
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012297:Right to Die / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012941:Social Responsibility; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States