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Oregon's 1997 law allows a capable adult with a terminal disease expected to cause death within six months to request medication they take themselves to end their life, after a voluntary written request confirmed by two physicians.
United States, Oregon, state statute (ORS 127.800 to 127.897). The Oregon Health Authority states that Oregon enacted the Death with Dignity Act on 27 October 1997, allowing terminally ill individuals to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose, and requiring the Authority to collect information and publish an annual report.
Under ORS 127.805, an adult (18 or over) who is capable and has been determined by the attending and consulting physicians to be suffering from a terminal disease, and who has voluntarily expressed the wish to die, may make a written request for the medication. A terminal disease is an incurable and irreversible disease, medically confirmed, that will within reasonable medical judgement produce death within six months. No one qualifies solely because of age or disability. An informed decision requires being told of feasible alternatives, including comfort care, hospice care and pain control.
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