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Period of time between 1906 movement and 1980s?

Isn't there any information available about what happened in this political movement in between the events of 1906 and the Kevorkian era beginning in 1989? That's a long period of time for the article to be silent. Bry9000 (talk) 23:18, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Assisted Suicide in the Mid-20th Century

I suggest adding a paragraph under History that includes events related to assisted suicide that occurred between 1906 and 1980. Certain important events include: 1930- there is an increase in popular support for assisted suicide during The Great Depression, 1937- the founding of the National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia, 1967- the first living will is written by Louis Kutner, 1972- US Senate holds first national hearings on euthanasia.

There are multiple timelines of events that go into detail about this time period and would be useful to the user because as of now there is a large time gap in the country's history of assisted suicide. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/assisted-suicide-in-the-us http://www.rtl.org/legislation/ProlifeLaws/assistedsuicide_chronology.html

Laurafisher17 (talk) 20:57, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Vermont Legalization

Could somebody please update this article and the map to reflect Vermont's new legalization of physician-assisted dying? Source: http://rt.com/usa/vermont-assisted-suicide-legalize-591/ Liberal92 (talk) 01:00, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology not neutral

Referring to this process as "physician-assisted suicide" is not neutral. A similar bias going the other way would be use of the term "death with dignity." The neutral term appears to be "physician aid in dying." Vermont, Washington, and Oregon clarify in their code that this process does not entail a suicide, which makes the term not just biased but inaccurate as per those states. (I'm not sure about the NM and MT court cases.) I'd like to make a redirect from physician-assisted suicide to the main page of physician aid in dying, then change terminology to respect neutral tone. Thoughts? Jordan 04:45, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

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 Could somebody please update this article and the map to reflect Vermont's new legalization of physician-assisted dying? Source: http://rt.com/usa/vermont-assisted-suicide-legalize-591/ [[User:Liberal92|Liberal92]] ([[User talk:Liberal92|talk]]) 01:00, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
+== Terminology not neutral ==
+Referring to this process as "physician-assisted suicide" is not neutral. A similar bias going the other way would be use of the term "death with dignity." The neutral term appears to be "physician aid in dying." Vermont, Washington, and Oregon clarify in their code that this process does not entail a suicide, which makes the term not just biased but inaccurate as per those states. (I'm not sure about the NM and MT court cases.) I'd like to make a redirect from physician-assisted suicide to the main page of physician aid in dying, then change terminology to respect neutral tone. Thoughts? Jordan 04:45, 24 February 2014 (UTC)