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Study Finds Patients who Chose Physician-Assisted Suicide May be Clinically Depressed (2008)

by APFLI | May 18, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive

One in four Oregonians who seek to end their lives with a legally prescribed drug overdose may be clinically depressed. The study, by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, evaluated 58 terminally ill patients who considered ending their lives under...

Are Activists Trying to Legalize Assisted Suicide in Your State?

by APFLI | Mar 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive

Trying to cash in on the widespread empathy generated by its media campaign featuring Brittany Maynard (the young woman with brain cancer who moved to Oregon last year to die using the Death with Dignity law), the assisted-suicide activist group Compassion &...