· Updated January 16, 2025 12:37 AM · 4 min read read
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Physician-assisted suicide is now legal regardless of what state you live in.
It isn't because of a new law passed at the federal level or the state level. The U.S. Supreme Court didn't issue some weird interpretation of the federal constitution claiming that people have the right to have someone kill them. In fact, physician-assisted suicide remains officially illegal in 40 of the country's 50 states.
Physician-assisted suicide is now legal regardless of what state you live in.
It isn't because of a new law passed at the federal level or the state level. The U.S. Supreme Court didn't issue some weird interpretation of the federal constitution claiming that people have the right to have someone kill them. In fact, physician-assisted suicide remains officially illegal in 40 of the country's 50 states.…