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Oregon Open for Suicide Tourism
If you’re looking to kill yourself, Oregon is the place to go. The first state to pass an assisted-suicide law is now also the first to allow suicide tourism from other states — and it probably won’t be the last.
The Daily Mail reported on February 5, “Oregon has become America’s first ‘death tourism’ destination, where terminally ill people from Texas and other states that have outlawed assisted suicide have started traveling to get their hands on a deadly cocktail of drugs to end their lives.”
In 1997, the Beaver State passed a law allowing terminally ill patients with fewer than six months to live to obtain fatal drugs from their doctors, though the patients were required to administer the drugs themselves and the law’s application was restricted to Oregon residents.
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