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Assisted Suicide Laws in Oregon and Washington: What Safeguards?

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...

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...