Creative Minority Reader: 7 Facts About Assisted Suicide

Margaret Dore, an attorney and president of Choice is an Illusion, writes:

1. Assisted Suicide Assisted suicide means that someone provides the means and/or information for another person to commit suicide. When a physician is involved, the practice is physician-assisted suicide.[1] 2. The Oregon and Washington Laws In Oregon, physician-assisted suicide was legalized in 1997 via a ballot measure.[2] In Washington State, a similar law was passed via another ballot measure in 2008 and went into effect in 2009.[3] 3. Throwing Away Your Life The Oregon and Washington laws apply to state residents predicted to have less than six months to live.[5] Such persons are not necessarily dying. Doctors can be wrong.