1.   Arlene Lowney, chairwoman of the ethics committee of the Hospice Federation of Massachusetts, also warned against legalizing assisted suicide.

2.   Abortion is widespread and assisted suicide has been legalized in Oregon.

3.   Advocates of legalizing assisted suicide said the sentence showed that cases were being decided by their idiosyncrasies and that the laws should be made more uniform.

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

5.   But the issue remains a contentious one and proposals to legalize assisted suicide are pending in Maine and Hawaii.

6.   Dr. Michael Grodin, another BU health law specialist, challenged arguments that physician-assisted suicide should be legalized to prevent prosecution of doctors who help people die.

7.   I guess I am in favor of legalizing assisted suicide, but I can see both sides.

8.   In Oregon voters will be asked in November to decide again whether they want their state to be the first to legalize assisted suicide.

9.   It also illustrated the difficulty of trying to limit such recourse, as many proposals for legalizing assisted suicide have done, to those within six months of dying.

10.   Legislators in the Netherlands recently citing him as they voted to legalize assisted suicide.