Federal money, by law, cannot be used in assisted suicide.

Washington is one of three states to have legal assisted suicide.

And is assisted suicide or not something that people should have a choice about?

With his wife and a family friend present, he committed assisted suicide.

Assisted suicide, though generally against the law, happens all the time.

Four years ago, the court suggested that assisted suicide was a matter for the states.

Either way, there are always people to talk to in the context of assisted suicide.

But for now, assisted suicide remains illegal in all 50 states.

On the question of assisted suicide, he said, "it's very hard to think what a little step would be."

"He's been an advocate for assisted suicide and I think he did talk about it with his mother."

But most experts say they believe that assisted suicide is becoming more common.

Now make a decision as to whether assisted suicide is going to go on."

Q. We're having a debate in this country over assisted suicide.

Unlike assisted suicide, for example, it is a quiet issue.

When an assisted suicide is declared, a police inquiry may be started.

This was seen as a victory for supporters of assisted suicide.

Assisted suicide is where the patient actively takes the last step in their death.

That would also remove the incentive for assisted suicide in 2010.

The doctor had made no secret of his crusade for assisted suicide.

"It is only when all else fails that assisted suicide makes sense," he said.

How close are we to the legalisation of assisted suicide?

All 50 states have either a criminal or common law sanction against assisted suicide.

But the debate has spilled past the boundaries of assisted suicide.

The law on assisted suicide is murky, largely because there have been so few cases.

The ethics of assisted suicide demand that patients, not doctors or anyone else, be in full control.

His most recent book is a defense of physician-assisted suicide.

Opponents say the risk to patients and to society of physician-assisted suicide is great.

But he is the central figure in a landmark case on physician-assisted suicide.

The film is about the life and work of the physician-assisted suicide advocate.

The case raised the issue of whether there is a Federal constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide.

The issue of physician-assisted suicide is obviously a sticky one.

Q. Can you comment on physician-assisted suicide for older people?

In the northwest American state, "physician-assisted suicide" has been legal since 1997.

For the last few years, physician-assisted suicide has had a checkered political career.

If legalized, the rate of physician-assisted suicide will increase, but not very much.

Physician-assisted suicide is legal under the same conditions as euthanasia.

On the question "Should physician-assisted suicide under certain conditions be legalized?"

The same problem recurs in the current debate over physician-assisted suicide.

The task force acknowledged that for some patients physician-assisted suicide is the best option.

She speaks her mind directly about almost every current hot topic except physician-assisted suicide.

Similar concerns may, therefore, motivate patients to seek physician-assisted suicide.

Both could be counted among the usually secretive cases of physician-assisted suicide.

There are certainly strong opponents of physician-assisted suicide who endorse the House action.

In 1999 he was one of 20 Republicans to vote against an ultimately failed bill to ban physician-assisted suicide.

But physician-assisted suicide in Oregon is not like that.

This is perhaps the cruelest of the arguments against physician-assisted suicide.

Physician-assisted suicide is legal in the states of Oregon and Washington.

His actions are almost certainly illegal and can only disrupt the important debate over physician-assisted suicide.

"This is a right I have," she said, pleading with the commissioners to make physician-assisted suicide legal.

More than a cure or physician-assisted suicide, we need simply for society to make room for us.

Federal money, by law, cannot be used in assisted suicide.

Washington is one of three states to have legal assisted suicide.

And is assisted suicide or not something that people should have a choice about?

Four years ago, the court suggested that assisted suicide was a matter for the states.

Either way, there are always people to talk to in the context of assisted suicide.

Assisted suicide, though generally against the law, happens all the time.

With his wife and a family friend present, he committed assisted suicide.

But for now, assisted suicide remains illegal in all 50 states.

On the question of assisted suicide, he said, "it's very hard to think what a little step would be."

"He's been an advocate for assisted suicide and I think he did talk about it with his mother."

"I don't think the state should be involved in assisted suicide.

Now make a decision as to whether assisted suicide is going to go on."

Q. We're having a debate in this country over assisted suicide.

But most experts say they believe that assisted suicide is becoming more common.

Unlike assisted suicide, for example, it is a quiet issue.

When an assisted suicide is declared, a police inquiry may be started.

This was seen as a victory for supporters of assisted suicide.

"It is only when all else fails that assisted suicide makes sense," he said.

That would also remove the incentive for assisted suicide in 2010.

How close are we to the legalisation of assisted suicide?

Assisted suicide is where the patient actively takes the last step in their death.

But the debate has spilled past the boundaries of assisted suicide.

The Netherlands has the most liberal assisted suicide laws in the world.

The doctor had made no secret of his crusade for assisted suicide.

The law on assisted suicide is murky, largely because there have been so few cases.