Largely modelled on a system that has operated in the US state of Oregon since 1997, the bill enables a mentally competent, terminally ill patient, with "settled intention", to end his or her own life, to self-administer a prescribed fatal dose of drugs if, according to two doctors, he or she has no more than six months to live.
A method of inflicting capital punishment consists of administering a fatal dose of hydrogen cyanide gas.
Mr. Nicklinson was too incapacitated to administer a fatal dose unaided.
Once it spots a crown-of-thorns starfish it uses an extended arm to administer a fatal dose of bile salts.
Switching off a life-support machine is as efficiently death-producing as administering a fatal dose of a drug.
I hear people imagining that somehow their own doctor or a relative will administer a fatal dose of something peaceful if they want it – but these days that's not possible.
The petition, which was published Thursday in the newsmagazine Le Nouvel Observateur, comes days before the trial of a doctor and a nurse charged with administering a fatal dose of potassium to a woman suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer in 2003.
The initiative would allow mentally competent adults to sign written directives authorizing a doctor to administer a fatal dose of medication or provide the means for suicide.
His doctor, cardiologist Conrad Murray, was later found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for administering a fatal dose of the powerful surgical anesthetic, Propofol.
The Jacksons allege that AEG negligently hired and supervised Conrad Murray, the doctor who administered a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to the singer in 2009.
The wrongful-death suit filed by Katherine Jackson and her grandchildren -- Prince, Paris and Blanket -- accuses AEG of negligently hiring and controlling Dr. Conrad Murray, who administered a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to Jackson shortly before he was to begin his "This Is It" comeback concerts in London.
