No Jump in Requests for Assisted Suicide
From Times Wire Reports
In the first report on assisted suicide since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the landmark state law, there was little change in the number of terminally ill patients who asked their doctors for a lethal dose of medication.
The report, released in Portland, showed 38 people in 2005 ended their lives under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, which went into effect in 1998.
It was nearly the same number as 2004, when 37 people asked their physicians for a lethal prescription.
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