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To the Editor: Physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia are topics of contentious debate in Michigan. After Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted in a number of highly publicized suicides, the state legislature established the Michigan Commission on Death and Dying to study the issue and recommend legislation. The legislature also banned assisted suicide beginning in February 1993^1,2,3. The ban has been challenged in court, and in any event the law requiring it expires at the end of 1994.

Further action by the legislature is likely. To aid this process, we surveyed Michigan residents and physicians. Our work was funded by a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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