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ISSUE GUIDES: Right to Die

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  • Life expectancy
  • Leading causes of death
  • Where Americans die
  • Family perceptions of end-of-life care
  • Type of care for chronically ill patients who died at home
  • Characteristics of hospice patients in the U.S.
  • Cost of dying in the last year of life
  • State laws on advance directives
  • Assisted-suicide laws in the U.S.
  • Characteristics of terminally ill patients in Oregon
  • End-of-life concerns for terminally ill patients in Oregon
  • Oregon's right-to-die law
  • Oregon physicians' attitudes toward assisted suicide
  • Oregon physicians' attitudes toward hospice service
  • Notable events in the history of physician-assisted suicide