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Fast Facts
  1. Euthanasia is usually defined as having someone other than the patient administering life-ending medication.
  2. In 2004, 69% of respondents to a poll conducted by The Gallup Organization said people with incurable diseases who request assisted suicide should be allowed to have it.
  3. In 1999, Dr. Jack Kervorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for practicing euthanasia.
  4. The Netherlands, Belgium, and the state of Oregon in the United States are the only places in the world where physician-assisted suicide is legal.



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Assisted Suicide   

Assisted suicide occurs when a physician provides a patient with the means of ending his or her life—usually a prescription for a fatal dose of drugs. The patient takes the drugs independently of the doctor. This procedure differs from euthanasia, in which the doctor administers the fatal dose or performs some other act, such as a lethal injection, that ends the patient's life. Assisted suicide is illegal in most places.

Assisted Suicide Overview

It is natural for human beings to hope to be free from pain when they are dying. Some think that individuals should also be allowed access to medical assistance to end their lives voluntarily, when and how they choose. Known as assisted suicide (or doctor- or physician-assisted suicide), this practice…>> (read more)

 

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Assisted Suicide in the News

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THE assisted-suicide movement has come a long way in just a couple of decades. Consider, for example, this recent item from the San Francisco Chronicle:…>> (read more)

Washington State is about to put into effect a referendum, passed by voters in November, to allow the terminally ill to ask physicians to assist their suicides. The activists…>> (read more)

Citizens of Washington State are petitioning for a vote on an initiative to copy Oregon's assisted-suicide law. Only people with terminal illnesses would have this grisly "right," at least…>> (read more)


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