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  2. Assisted suicide - Wikipedia

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    Assisted suicide describes the process by which a person, with the help of others, takes drugs to end their life. [1] It has been referred to as physician-assisted suicide (PAS), assisted suicide, assisted dying or medical aid in dying. [2] This medical practice is an end-of-life measure for a person suffering a painful, terminal illness. [3]

  3. Assisted suicide in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first significant drive to legalize assisted suicide in the United States arose in the early twentieth century. In a 2004 article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Brown University historian Jacob M. Appel documented extensive political debate over legislation to legalize physician-assisted death in Iowa and Ohio in 1906.

  4. Assisted living - Wikipedia

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    An assisted living residence or assisted living facility (ALF) is a housing facility for people with disabilities or for adults who cannot or who choose not to live independently. The term is popular in the United States .

  5. Euthanasia in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Assisted suicide is legal in 10 jurisdictions in the US: Washington, D.C. [2] and the states of California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Maine, [3] New Jersey, [4] Hawaii, and Washington. [5] The status of assisted suicide is disputed in Montana, though currently authorized per the Montana Supreme Court's ruling in Baxter v.

  6. Voices: Before voting on assisted dying today, I urge MPs to ...

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    However, in 2017, the Oregon Health Authority, describing its law as a “permissive law”, announced that its definition of terminal illness (a necessary criterion for assisted suicide in the ...

  7. California End of Life Option Act - Wikipedia

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    California End of Life Option Act is a law enacted in June 2016 by the California State Legislature which allows terminally ill adult residents in the state of California to access medical aid in dying by self-administering lethal drugs, provided specific circumstances are met. [1]

  8. Senior living - Wikipedia

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    Independent senior living differs from continuing care communities, which offer independent living along with multiple other levels of care, such as assisted living and skilled nursing, in one single residence. [8] A retirement home is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly.

  9. Non-voluntary euthanasia - Wikipedia

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    It states that euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are not punishable if the attending physician acts in accordance with criteria of due care. [15] Prior to the establishment of that law, euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands were already tolerated for many years, as for example described by G. van der Wal and R. J. Dillmann ...