1. Respectively, Katie Hafner, “In Ill Doctor, a Surprise Reflection of Who Picks Assisted Suicide,” New York Times, August 12, 2012, 1;
2. Thomas J. Sheeran and John Seewer, “Mercy Killings Evoke Sympathy from Many,” Bryan-College Station Eagle, August 13, 2012, A3.
3. Marcia Angell, “May Doctors Help You to Die?” The New York Review of Books, October 11, 2012, 39.
4. See A. B. Jotkowitz and S. Glick, “The Groningen Protocol: Another Perspective,” Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (2006): 157–58;
5. Alexander A. Kon, “Neonatal Euthanasia Is Unsupportable: The Groningen Protocol Should Be Abandoned,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 28 (2007): 453–63, and “We Cannot Accurately Predict the Extent of an Infant’s Future Suffering: The Groningen Protocol Is Too Dangerous to Support,” The American Journal of Bioethics 8, no. 11 (2008): 27–29;