51.   But because the study group is officially neutral, she said, it has decided not to put guidelines in writing while assisted suicide remains illegal.

52.   But he defends assisted suicide for patients whose lives doctors cannot make tolerable.

53.   But in each of the four previous trials he was charged with violating assisted suicide laws, not with committing murder.

54.   But it is the debate over the morality of assisted suicide that has prevented consensus elsewhere.

55.   But if physicians are going to engage in assisted suicide, he says, they should be present.

56.   But laws against assisted suicide have often failed to prevent its occurrence, particularly among physicians, many of whom admit to helping patients die.

57.   But lawyers for supporters of assisted suicide say the voters, and the courts, have now spoken.

58.   But most experts say they believe that assisted suicide is becoming more common.

59.   But only as a society can we determine if the assisted suicide should be legalized.

60.   But many proponents of assisted suicide believe his second-degree murder conviction last week, in the death of a seriously ill man, could help them.