End- of- Life 'Doulas,' Helping Professionals Who Guide the Dying

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4. Very moving, thanks for sharing this experience with a beloved one.

- Physician assisted death/medical aid in dying in the US is legal in 10 jurisdictions:

(Wiki) Physician-assisted death or "medical aid in dying" is legal in ten jurisdictions: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Maine (starting January 1, 2020),[1] New Jersey,[2] Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.[3]

These laws (excluding Montana since there is no law) expressly state that "actions taken in accordance with [the Act] shall not, for any purpose, constitute suicide, assisted suicide, mercy killing or homicide, under the law". This distinguishes the legal act of “medical aid in dying” from the act of helping someone commit suicide, which is prohibited by statute in 42 states and prohibited by common law in an additional six states and the District of Columbia.[4] Opponents see no such distinction...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide_in_the_United_States