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  2. 1994 Oregon Ballot Measure 16 - Wikipedia

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    List of Oregon ballot measures; California End of Life Option Act; Compassion & Choices of Oregon, providing medical consultation and direct service for persons eligible for the Oregon Death with Dignity law. Death with Dignity National Center, an organization founded to pass and support the law. Massachusetts Death with Dignity Initiative

  3. Euthanasia in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Involuntary euthanasia is illegal in all 50 states of the United States. [1] 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]

  4. Gonzales v. Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 243 (2006), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court which ruled that the United States Attorney General cannot enforce the federal Controlled Substances Act against physicians who prescribed drugs, in compliance with Oregon state law, to terminally ill patients seeking to end their lives, commonly referred to as assisted suicide. [1]

  5. Death with Dignity National Center - Wikipedia

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    Subsequently, the Oregon Death with Dignity Legal Defense and Education Center (ODLDEC), the forerunner to the Death with Dignity National Center, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded to defend the voter-approved law. In 1997, Oregon Right to Die Political Action Committee successfully defeated Measure 51, an attempt to ban death with dignity ...

  6. Brittany Maynard - Wikipedia

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    She moved from California to Oregon to take advantage of Oregon's Death with Dignity Law, [10] saying she had decided that "death with dignity was the best option for me and my family." [8] [11] She partnered with Compassion & Choices to create the Brittany Maynard Fund, which seeks to legalize assisted death in states where it is now illegal. [4]

  7. Assisted suicide in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Data from the Oregon Health Authority, which publishes annual reports on the state's first-in-the-nation assisted death law, show that approximately two-thirds of patients who receive prescriptions for lethal drugs take them. [59] [needs update] Oregon requires a physician to prescribe drugs and they must be self-administered.

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  9. How to Die in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    How to Die in Oregon is a 2011 American documentary film produced and directed by Peter Richardson.It is set in the U.S. state of Oregon and covers the state's Death with Dignity Act that allows terminally ill patients to self-administer barbiturates prescribed by their physician to end their own life, referred to as assisted suicide by opponents and medical aid in dying by proponents.