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By Jayne Spencer
Dr. Timothy Quill, who challenged the New York statute prohibiting physician-assisted suicide, and Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar, whose early writing produced what many consider the classic case against legalizing active voluntary euthanasia, will be in Indiana Thursday (March 5).
Quill's presentation, sponsored by the Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis, is titled "Clinical Medicine, the Law and the Right to Die: Personal Reflections" at 7:45 p.m. in Room 116 of the law school, IUPUI. A reception precedes the event at 7 p.m. in the law school's Daily Lounge.
He is the author of Death and Dignity: Making Choices and Taking Charge and A Midwife Through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices of Life.
Kamisar will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Psychology Building, Room 100, on the IU Bloomington campus. His title is "Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: The Significance of the Wrenching Case." Co-sponsors are the IU School of Law-Bloomington and the Poynter Center. He is the co-author of two widely used casebooks, Modern Criminal Procedure and Constitutional Law.
To read Quill's Frontline interview concerning Dr. Jack Kevorkian, go to:
http://www2.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian/medicine/q uill3.html
For a synopsis of Midwife:
http://www.growthhouse.org/books/rquill12.htm
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