Friday, October 31, 2014
CBS Sixty Minutes: "Ending Life"
A week ago, CBS's Sixty Minutes interviewed Barbara Mancini, the Pennsylvania nurse accused of helping her elderly father to kill himself with an overdose of morphine. The charges were eventually dismissed by the court, concluding there was insufficient admissible evidence of the charged crime. The transcript of the program, titled "Ending Life," is now available; the daughter's account of her own actions should provide a basis for classroom discussion of several key legal and non-legal issues, including whether "medical orders" are needed to make so-called living wills effective, and the proper roles for hospice workers.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/elder_law/2014/10/cbs-sixty-minutes-ending-life.html