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Washington State Olympic Medical Center Changes Position on Assisted Suicide

6 June 2009 · News

Washington State Olympic Medical Center Changes Position on Assisted Suicide Olympic Medical Center in Washington state has changed its position on whether staff and patients will be allowed to pursue an assisted suicide. The decision is a modification of its original one to opt out of participating in the law that made Washington the second state to legalize assisted suicide.

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