Assisted Suicide Seems Part of Oregon's Identity ; Bush Administration Wants High Court to Void Law
The Columbian › August 29, 2005
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PORTLAND Julie McMurchie and her four siblings watched their 68- year-old mother, Peggy Sutherland, kill herself by lifting a fatal barbiturate dose to her lips and swallowing.
It was difficult for them to accept their mother was about to die, McMurchie said. But Sutherland was in a long and painful struggle with lung cancer, and her children supported her decision to end her life.See the full content of this document
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Assisted Suicide Seems Part of Oregon's Identity ; Bush Administration Wants High Court to Void Law
"We were all hugging and kissing her and telling her it was OK to let go," McMurchie said.
"Mom held up the glass of medication and said, 'I don't think anyone understands how much pain I've been in.' Then she drank it herself. She was asleep in five minutes and she died within 20 minutes," McMurchie said.Sutherland took her own life under Oregon's Death With Dignity law, one-of-a-kind leg...See the full content of this document
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