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Until after a Supreme Court ruling in 2006 threw out a Justice Department effort to block Oregonâs law, no other state permitted assisted suicide. Washington adopted its measure in 2008. Several northern European countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland, also allow assisted suicide.
Assisted suicide: Physician-assisted suicide is currently legal in the American states of Oregon, Washington, Vermont and (arguably) Montana and New Mexico. No other states have legalized it. It is also legal in the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Luxembourg.ssisted suicide: Physician-assisted suicide is currently legal in the American states of Oregon, Washington, Vermont and (arguably) Montana and New Mexico. No other states have legalized it. It is also legal in the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Luxembourg.