Presentation on the public policy debate on PAS.

1. A Presentation by Megan Biggs
Physician-Assisted
Suicide

2. What is it?

3. Who can commit it?

4. Stakeholders

5. Conjecture

6. It’s an issue.

7. Definition

8. PAS vs. Euthanasia
Killing vs. Letting Die

9. Value

10. Patients should
have autonomy
over their lives.

11. PAS should be an
option if unbearable
pain ruins quality of
life.

12. Doctors
should not
kill their
patients.

13. According to
religion, people
should not end their
lives.

17. Action

18. -Low Income impact
-Opt-out provisions

19. What next?
Clarity and fewer
contraditions