Senate Bill 239 argues that a 'mentally capable adult patient should have the right to self-determination concerning his or her health care decisions.'
across the globe, with medical practitioners having to grapple with a contradiction between their oath to protect life and an ethical belief in affording patients a good quality of life.
A Nevada Highway Patrol vehicle passes by the State Capitol in Carson City, Nevada, on January 17, 2021. State senators have voted to approve a measure that would legalize assisted suicide.Assisted dying remains illegal in many countries. In the U.K., for example, assisting a suicide can be prosecuted as murder or manslaughter. In 2011, Terry Pratchett—the prolific British author who died four years later—made adocumentary on the subject after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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