Most country hospitals will bar assisted suicide

When Washington state’s Death with Dignity law is enacted this week, experts say people who think they may want to take advantage of it should decide now who their health care provider will be. “You need to find out now if your doctor shares your values, because when you are terminally ill, when you’re close to your death, that’s not the time to find out,” said Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassion & Choices, a Denver-based organization that advocates physician-assisted death.

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