Use of assisted suicide to refer to aid in dying is inaccurate in fourth distinctive ways First it was coined by Catholic activists disputing Oregon s Measure 16 in 1994 so it carries a political bias Second the laws in Oregon Washington and Vermont each do not contain the term assisted suicide but use aid in dying Third assisting a suicide remains illegal in all three states and also Montana and New Mexico No state attorney general or county district attorney has charged any physician or pharmacist who acted within the aid in dying laws of the three states Finally describing people who use aid in dying such as Brittany Maynard suicides grossly misrepresents their experience and devalues both their lives and deaths Continued usage of the biased and inaccurate term should be amended throughout Wikipedia