Legislation entitled Rights of the Terminally Ill Act includes:
- Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995, briefly legalizing euthanasia in Australia's Northern Territory
- Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, dealing with withholding of life support in the United States
Famous quotes containing the words rights of, rights, ill and/or act:
“Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. One man owns his clothes, and another owns a country.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Since woman’s rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect—and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide,
In thy most need to go by thy side.”
—Anonymous. Knowledge, in Everyman, act 1, l. 522 (c. 1509-1519)