1. Smith, W.J. (2000) Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, Encounter Books, San Francisco, CA, USA.
2. In re Quinlan, 70 N.J. 10, esp. at 40.
3. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health, 110 S.Ct. at 2851. The protection of a liberty interest is stressed in this case.
4. See Meisel, Alan (1992) The Legal Consensus about Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment: Its Status and its Prospects, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2: 309–345.
5. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington, No. 94-35534, filed March 6, 1996; United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Vacco v. Quill, No. 95-7028, decided April 2, 1996; 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 6215. See, further, Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington, 850 F. Supp. 1454 (W.D. Wash. 1994); U.S. D. Ct., W.D. Wash., No. C94-119R, decided May 3 and overturned March 9, 1995 by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in an opinion written by Judge John T. Noonan. Compassion in Dying v. Washington, No. 94-35534 (U.S. App. March 9, 1995). See also Goldberg, Stephanie B. (July, 1994) Death by Choice: Two Courts Clash on Constitutional Right to Assisted Suicide, ABA Journal 80: 73; Robichaud, Todd David (1994) Toward a More Perfect Union: A Federal Cause of Action for Physician Aid-in-Dying, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 27: 521–64.