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I keep hearing on your show, the term "physician-assisted suicide." However, the Oregon Department of Human Services has rejected this term, instead adopting value-neutral language for describing a mentally competent, terminally ill patient?s decision to access the state?s Death with Dignity Act.

Cancer patient and Salem resident Char Andrews told the National Press Club it is ?an insult? to her fight against her illness to call the choice she wants ?suicide.?

Let's please use the accurate and respectful language "aid in dying."

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