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Oregon, the first state in the country to legalize assisted suicide, is moving to expand its program by allowing non-residents to travel there solely for the purpose of dying.<\/p>\n

After a lawsuit challenged the Oregon residency requirement, the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Medical Board agreed to stop enforcing<\/a> the provision. They will also request that the legislature officially remove the residency requirement, allowing death tourism to flourish. \u201cThis requirement was both discriminatory and profoundly unfair to dying patients at the most critical time of their life,\u201d Kevin Diaz, an attorney with Compassion & Choices, said in a statement. Diaz denied it could entice suicidal people to flock to Oregon. “There\u2019s no tourism going on.”<\/p>\n

Yet the most famous person to undergo assisted suicide in Oregon, Brittany Maynard<\/a>, moved to Oregon for the sole purpose of killing herself. Countries without residency requirements for assisted suicide, like Switzerland, likewise see people travel from around the world<\/a> to pay tens of thousands of dollars for doctors to assist in their suicides.<\/p>\n

While assisted suicide advocates would surely argue that this simply means more states need to allow doctors to kill their patients, Oregon’s own data should give pause to expanding this deadly program.<\/p>\n

The state’s most recent annual report<\/a> continues to reaffirm that people are undergoing assisted suicide for troubling reasons. Nearly all<\/em> people who were killed cited “losing autonomy” and \u201cless able to engage in activities making life enjoyable\u201d as their reasoning for being killed, at 93% and 92%, respectively. Oregon has also allowed people to be killed for anorexia now as well \u2014 all as Oregon ranks the worst state<\/a> in the country for mental illness. Yet less than 1% of patients killed were referred to psychiatrists first, even though very few were concerned about uncontrollable pain \u2014\u00a0the reason most often given for undergoing assisted suicide.<\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong>\u00a0Latest report reveals troubling trends in Oregon\u2019s assisted suicide rates<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Additionally, the number of patients who experienced complications slightly rose — and these are only known<\/em> complications. Over half of all patients killed have no information available for any potential complications.<\/p>\n

Laura Echevarria, a spokeswoman for National Right to Life, told NBC News the organization fears this will not only encourage death tourism, but also open the doors to more abuse of the law, as patients won’t be seeing physicians familiar with them or their treatment. \u201cThe hope is that doctors will continue to evaluate patients,” she said, “but it certainly creates a situation where there could be more abuse of that law.”<\/p>\n

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Oregon, the first state in the country to legalize assisted suicide, is moving to expand its program by allowing non-residents to travel there solely for the purpose of dying. After a lawsuit challenged the Oregon residency requirement, the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Medical Board agreed to stop enforcing the provision. 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