Send us your Feedback For our privacy policy, click here . For our user agree- ment, click here . Dr. Jack Kevorkian is in prison for giving a man with Lou Gehrig's disease a lethal injection. But, as Kevorkian intended, the debate over legalizing euthanasia is far from dead. To the casual observer, the difference between physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia may seem academic.
Assisted suicide is death by doctor-prescribed drugs that the terminally ill patient swallows.
It is legal in Oregon. Euthanasia is commonly thought of as death by lethal injection, administered by someone else, usually a doctor. It is illegal nationwide. Jenny abhors the prospect of legalized euthanasia. She worries about the right to die becoming the duty to die, particularly in an era of expensive health care.