Saturday, October 18, 2008

Depressed receiving lethal injections, not treatment

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=289170

[OneNewsNow] 18 Oct 2008--Doctor-assisted suicide laws are being investigated in Oregon.

Researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) conducted a study, published in the British Medical Journal, that shows 26 percent of terminally ill patients in Oregon who requested a lethal cocktail were diagnosed as suffering depression, which is technically a treatable mental illness. Rita Marker of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is not surprised.

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