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Index - D

Death, determining, 3f, 7-8
See also Brain death

"Death and Dignity—A Case of Individualized Decision-Making" (Quill), 68-70

Death with Dignity Act (Oregon), 70t, 73-75, 156

Declaration of Geneva, 16

Degenerative brain disorders, 30

Dementia, 139-142

Demographics, 135

Depression, 142-143

Diagnosis
hospice care discharges by, 6t
persistent vegetative state (PVS), criteria for, 29-30

Dialysis, kidney, 29

Disabled persons
Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities or end stage renal disease, 127f
physician-assisted suicide, 75

Do Not Resuscitate orders, 26-27, 27f

Doerflinger, Richard M., 78

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 73-74

Due-process and physician-assisted suicide, 112

Durable power of attorney for health care, 85-86, 91t-98t

Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life (Byock), 4, 17

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