@article{ref1,
title="The Michigan Psychiatric Society's experience with physician-assisted suicide",
journal="American journal of forensic psychiatry",
year="1999",
author="Klyman, C.M.",
volume="20",
number="4",
pages="79-92",
abstract="The Michigan Psychiatric Association (MPS) and its 1100 members have agonized over physician-assisted suicide. It remains a highly personal matter, difficult to deal with through a representational democratic legislature or judicial process. A direct referendum - one person, one vote with majority rule - seems to be where we are headed, despite MPS's wish to have this not be a legislated matter but rather a decision between patient and doctor. Michigan's first attempted ballot directive failed in November, 1998. Subsequently, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for giving a lethal injection to a patient in the end stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The ban against assisted suicide awaits challenge.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0163-1942",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}