Currently in the United States, Oregon is only state that has legalized physician assisted suicide. There are four different categories of euthanasia, and similar to euthanasia is patient assisted suicide. There are concerns with the legalization, and acceptance of physician-assisted suicide, that the right to die will become the duty to die (Torr 80). ... These guidelines were established to assist physicians in deciding whether a patient's life should or should not be terminated by following specific criteria. ... The Act also states that ending one's life within the guidelines o...

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Physician assisted suicide is the process of a physician supplying information and or the means of committing suicide to a patient. ... One may ask, what is the difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide? ... It assisted suicide, a person knowingly and intentionally provides the means or in some way helps a suicidal person killed himself or herself. ... For all practical purposes, any distinction between euthanasia and assisted suicide has been abandoned today. ... Suicide and attempted suicide are not criminalized. ...

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