Legal Analysis of Initiated Measure

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By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA

" If Dr. Stevens had believed in assisted suicide, I would be dead"

Jeanette & her son Scott in 2000

By Jeanette Hall

I live in Oregon where assisted suicide is legal. Our law passed in 1997 by a ballot measure that I voted for.

In 2000, I was diagnosed with cancer and told that I had 6 months to a year to live.  I knew that our law had passed, but I didn’t know exactly how to go about doing it. I tried to ask my doctor, Kenneth Stevens MD, but he didn’t really answer me. In hindsight, he was stalling me.