Doctor-Assisted Suicides Up Slightly Under Law
From Times Wire Reports
Physician-assisted suicides increased slightly in 2003 in Oregon, the only state that allows doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to terminally ill patients, a report says.
Forty-two terminally ill patients killed themselves last year under the assisted-suicide law, according to the report by the State Department of Human Services. It was an increase of about 10% from 2002, when 38 people committed suicide legally.
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