Fox News reports here that in Oregon, the only state where doctor-assisted suicide is legal, seriously ill patients get letters that say that the state will not pay for their treatment, but will pay for a doctor-assisted suicide. The administrator of the program defends the program.
“I have had patients who would
consider knowing that this [doctor-assisted suicide] is part of that range of comfort care or
palliative care services that are still available to them, they would
be comforted by that,” Sattenspiel said. “It really depends on the
individual patient.”
