Tutuzdad, If assisted suicide is illegal in 35 states, in which states is it legal?

Dear juba-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question. The matter seems a bit more complicated than where it is
?legal? and where it is illegal?. It seems that it is not really a
black-and-white issue. Some states are on the fence while others
simply have not, as of yet, addressed the issue through the
legislative process:

?Currently, 35 STATES have statutes explicitly criminalizing assisted suicide : 

Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Washington, Wisconsin

NINE states criminalize assisted suicide through common law: 

Alabama, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, South
Carolina, Vermont, West Virginia

THREE states have abolished the common law of crimes and do not have
statutes criminalizing assisted suicide :

North Carolina, Utah, Wyoming 

In Ohio, that state's supreme court ruled in October 1996 that
assisted suicide is not a crime.

In Virginia, there is no real clear case law on assisted suicide , nor
is there is a statute criminalizing the act, although there is a
statute which imposes civil sanctions on persons assisting in a
suicide.

Only Oregon permits physician- assisted suicide.?

ASSISTED SUICIDE LAWS STATE BY STATE
http://www.euthanasia.com/bystate.html

 

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