In the United States, the term "assisted suicide" is typically used to describe what proponents refer to as medical aid in dying, in which a terminally...

Assisted suicide describes the process by which a person, with the help of others, takes medications to die by suicide. The term usually refers to physician-assisted...

Suicide is a major national public health issue in the United States. The country has one of the highest suicide rates among wealthy nations. In 2020,...

is illegal in all 50 states of the United States. Assisted suicide is legal in 10 jurisdictions in the US: Washington, D.C. and the states of California...

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The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia is a 2006 book by Neil Gorsuch. The book presents legal and moral arguments against euthanasia and assisted...

Suicide by cop (abbreviated as: SbC), also known as suicide by police or law-enforcement-assisted suicide, is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual...

life "when the time seemed right." She was an advocate for the legalization of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Maynard was born in Anaheim, California...

committing suicide. On 29 November 2017, the state of Victoria passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act, making it legal for a doctor to assist a terminally...

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to end the life of a terminally ill patient, often referred to as physician-assisted suicide. In May 2018, a state trial court ruled that the law was...

The Hemlock Society (sometimes called Hemlock Society USA) was an American right-to-die and assisted suicide advocacy organization which existed from 1980...

Suicide tourism, or euthanasia tourism, is the practice of potential suicide candidates travelling to a jurisdiction to die by suicide or assisted suicide...

right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that...

the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering, while assisted suicide, also known as physician-assisted suicide,...

in North America.[citation needed] Self-administered and assisted suicides by asphyxiation using a plastic bag with helium were first recorded in the...

Maine Physician-assisted Deaths Question One". Arakawa, Lynda. "Bill on Assisted Suicide Advances". The Honolulu Advertiser. Archived from the original on...

decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, which unanimously held that a right to assisted suicide in the United States was not protected by the Due Process...

their physician to end their own life, referred to as assisted suicide by opponents and medical aid in dying by proponents. Richardson spent nearly a year...

upholding the law. Act 39 in Vermont, the first state to pass a death with dignity law by legislative action Assisted suicide in the United States List of...

states to decide whether they would allow physician-assisted suicide or not. Since 1994, the following states in the US have passed assisted suicide laws:...

assisted suicide or what the organization refers to as “aid in dying,” which in the USA is generally limited to people with terminal illnesses. The organization’s...

suicide method is any means by which a person may choose to end their life. Suicide attempts do not always result in death, and a non-fatal suicide attempt...

became United States Attorney General in 2001, he secured a memorandum from the Office of Legal Counsel concluding that physician-assisted suicide violates...

National Suicide Prevention Week (NSPW) is an annual week-long campaign in the United States to inform and engage health professionals and the general...

Amendment to the United States Constitution. It went on to hold, however, that speech which actually assisted a suicide was not protected. Since the trial court...

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to assisted suicide, or safeguards in the initiative's text. They felt that legalization of assisted suicide would put pressure on minorities, the disabled...

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kind of assisted dying. In 2014, a total of 752 assisted suicides were performed (330 men, 422 women), compared to 1,029 non-assisted suicides (754 men...