by APFLI | Nov 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Update: Oregon & Washington Suicide Study A suicide study, published in the Southern Medical Journal, found an increase (6.3%) in total suicides, with a larger increase (14.5%) among individuals 65 or older, in Oregon and Washington after doctor-assisted suicide...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
In 1997, Oregon became the first government in the world to legalize assisted suicide, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal prescriptions to terminally ill patients. Since then, 1,173 people have received a lethal prescription, and 752 of them have taken the...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Oregon is the only state in the nation to have legalized assisted suicide, but don’t call the grisly practice by that name anymore. The state’s health department has decided to change the wording of the phrase when referring to the state law — a move...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Almost 750 Oregonians died from violence in 2005, with suicide accounting for the majority of those deaths. State health officials report that 555 Oregon residents killed themselves in 2005 — more than five times the amount who died from homicide. Oregon had...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Terminally ill patients with less than six months to live will soon be able to ask their doctors to prescribe them lethal medication in Washington state. But even though the “Death with Dignity” law takes effect Thursday, people who might seek the...
