As noted in the Supreme Court of New Mexico case Morris v. Brandenburg, assisted suicide is the act of actively aiding other people in the taking of their own lives. Physician-assisted suicide, a subset of assisted suicide, involves the assistance of a physician.
Autopsy, borrowed from the Greek term autopsia – meaning “the act of seeing with one’s own eyes” – means the detailed medical examination and/or dissection of a dead body to determine the cause of death or for any scientific and medical purpose.
A cannabis-derived product is content on the market that comes from the cannabis plant.
Certificate of death, or death certificate, is an official legal document provided by a government recognizing that a person has died. A certificate of death contains essential information about a deceased person including their cause of death, date, and other statistics necessary for government agency documentation.
Comfort care, also called palliative care, is medical care designed not to cure, but to reduce a patient’s pain and keep him or her comfortable. This kind of medical care focuses on the patient’s quality of life, usually toward his or her end of life. As explained by The National Institute on Aging, a patient can receive palliative care along with treatment intended to cure their serious illness(es).
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, also known as COBRA, is a federal statute, passed in 1985, that provides employees and their families the right to continue group health benefits&
A controlled substance is a drug, substance, or immediate precursor defined by the Uniform Controlled Substances Act.
A controlled substance analogue is a drug that is, or is represented to be, substantially similar in structure or function to a Schedule I or II controlled substance. See 21 U.S. Code § 802(32)(A) for more information.
