When Is Legalized Suicide Acceptable, and When Is It Not?

This picture shows an "euthanasia kit" available in hundreds of Belgian Multipharma's chemist shops for the general practitioners who want to practise euthanasias at the patients' homes, in Brussels on April 18, 2005. Etienne Ansotte/AFP via Getty Images

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And now there are 11. Eleven jurisdictions in the United States have now legalized the act of suicide when it is the product of consultation between a terminally ill patient and a qualified medical person.