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…, published articles, submitted legislative testimony, and provided the day-to-day management an organization requires. I am not saying this to be “inspirational,” but to make it clear that people like me have good lives and should not be written off. ECONOMIC PRESSURES TOWARD ASSISTED SUICIDE If anyone doubted that someone like me would qualify for assisted suicide in a state like Oregon, those doubts were laid to rest in 2017 when an Oregon offi…
…ll Oregon and medical practice would suffer, but the opposite occurred: End-of-life care is robust, thriving and increasingly patient-centered in Oregon.” Others cite evidence and studies that contradict this claim. (See, e.g., Hendin and Foley, Physician Assisted Suicide in Oregon, Mich Law Rev June 2008[3].) More importantly, in terms of state health care policy, the disability community has always been concerned about the fact that assisted s…
