Imagine living your whole life the way you want to live it, then you get cancer and you have to go through Kimo therapy and all sorts of difficult procedures. It just happens that this kind of cancer cannot be cured, to top it off the doctor tells you you have about 7 months to live. Those next months are also supposed to be really painful and you decid

Tolle, Susan Oregon's Death with Dignity Act Annual Report. Eugene, Or.1999

Why make people suffer? There is no reason why a person should suffer and have no control over there own life. In Nov. 1997 the state of Oregon approved the Death with Dignity Act, which allowed asst. suicide legal. The first year that it was available 23 Oregonians received the pills; only 15 people used the pill and died peacefully. This past year 33 people asked for it and only 26 actually used it. I think that the reason why the rate is going up because more and more (elder) people are moving to Oregon for this reason. People might say that it to hard on the family but most of the family members under-stand; a husband of a person that took pill was quoted "She was my only girl; I didn't want to loose her but she wanted to do this." The state of Maine is right now trying to legalize the pill and I believe that they will do so. People in every state have a right to decide when they want to die.

e that you do not want to go through all of that pain and suffering. You talk to your doctor and he says that it is not possible for him to end your misery and none of your friends or your family members are not willing to do it. There is only

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