Assisted suicide: One of those difficult subjects where it is hard to find balance and compromise. The debate about medically assisted suicide has been going on for several decades in Western countries.
As a minimum, medical doctors are conflicted by the about 2300 years old Hippocratic Oath (First do no harm).
"Oregon will no longer require people to be residents of the state to use its law allowing terminally ill people to receive lethal medication, after a lawsuit challenged the requirement as unconstitutional.
In a settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday, the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Medical Board agreed to stop enforcing the residency requirement and to ask the Legislature to remove it from the law. ..."
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