1.   In the United States, Oregon has a law permitting some assisted suicides.

2.   The author imagined assisted suicide to be a heavily regulated practice, to prevent abuse.

3.   Thirty-four other states have adopted similar laws banning assisted suicide.

4.   Although his public voice has been muted, his reach on assisted suicide is broad.

5.   Among the fine-tuning issues under consideration is exactly what to call a death by assisted suicide on a death certificate.

6.   An initiative in Michigan upheld a ban on assisted suicide.

7.   An internist and a medical ethicist, her opposition to assisted suicide is firm.

8.   Among opponents of assisted suicide, an anticipated Supreme Court victory is no cause for joy.

9.   And a thoughtful, well-reasoned debate over assisted suicide is precisely what we as a nation need.

10.   And he wrote that states may appropriately regulate assisted suicide and that physicians also will take care to police themselves.