Should a mentally competent, terminally ill person be allowed to choose the time and method of his or her death? ... Currently, physician-assisted suicide is legal only in Oregon; however this has not prevented terminally ill patients residing out-of-state from seeking physician assistance in ending their lives. Terminally ill patients who have been unable to receive the assistance they so desperately seek often resort to drastic measures such as overdosing on prescription medicine, or creating their own suicide machines, which often end in botched attempts and leaves the patient in a worse st...

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