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What Oregon’s Death With Dignity Settlement Means For Out-Of-State Terminally Ill Patients

Oregon is the first state in the nation to allow doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to out-of-state residents.

Mar 31, 2022

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OHSU Doctor, Advocacy Group Challenge Residency Requirement In Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act

The national advocacy organization Compassion & Choices and an OHSU professor filed a lawsuit alleging the requirement in Oregon's medical aid in dying law violates the U.S. Constitution.

Oct 28, 2021

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Death With Dignity Bill Draws Party Line Vote

Jun 12, 2019
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Death with Dignity Event Focuses on 'Building Bridges' With Hospice

Most patients who die under the law are in hospice care – but some in the hospice movement are still uncomfortable with the law

Oct 10, 2013

Dr. Ira Byock Urges Portland Audience to Talk About End-of-Life Care

January 30, 2013 -- Dr. Ira Byock, a professor of medicine at Dartmouth College and writer on end-of-life and palliative care issues, talked to a packed house at the Oregon Humanities Center in downtown Portland about an unlikely topic for Friday night entertainment: death.

Jan 30, 2013

Ashland Community Hospital Expected to Merge with Asante

January 2, 2013 -- Ashland Community Hospital and Asante – a southern Oregon-based healthcare company that owns hospitals in Medford and Grants Pass – are hammering out the details of a proposed merger, and expect to continue those talks into early next year, according to Roy Vinyard, Asante's president and CEO.

Jan 2, 2013

My Body, My Choices

OPINION -- November 6, 2012 – I hope to choose the time of my death. Having been born in 1934, I accept the reality of death. I did not choose blood clots in my urine. I did not choose stage 3 bladder cancer in April 2011. With help from my physician friends and family, I did choose to have the Radical Cystectomy surgery; I did choose the surgeon (from among four I interviewed) and the anesthesiologist.

Nov 6, 2012