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, ill and/or act:
“Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Against ill chances men are ever merry,
But heaviness foreruns the good event.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
This pantomime
Of compensating act and counter-act,
Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
My ablest time.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)