title: Physician-assisted suicide: a "right" reserved for only the competent?
authors.forename: J W D
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Donahue
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D000544:Alzheimer Disease; D002961:Civil Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003657:Decision Making; D005065:Euthanasia / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D016743:Mental Competency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012297:Right to Die / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000941:ethics; D020458:Third-Party Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States