SUMMARY
Many issues relating to drug use in assisted suicide and euthanasia are explored. The papers which follow in this volume discuss ethical and institutional background policy issues, the patient's situation, legal and regulatory issues in assisted suicide and euthanasia, and drug use in assisted suicide and euthanasia. Several papers contain accounts of current practice, both legal and extra-legal, of drug use in assisted suicide and euthanasia. Commentaries include position papers on assisted suicide and euthanasia, and a set of discussion cases addressed by an interdisciplinary panel.