The Slippery Slope
We focus on euthanasia because physician assisted suicide laws are just Trojan Horse policies. In almost every state or country that has legalized physician assisted suicide, proponents quickly remove any safeguards and regulations that could prevent the slippery slope towards imposing death on patients via euthanasia. Where they have succeeded in passing limited physician assisted suicide bills, they always come back to chip away at any limits with lawsuits or lobbying efforts to expand the state’s suicide program.
In the U.S.A., Oregon and Vermont have removed their residency requirement for physician assisted suicide, so you can travel to these states to commit physician assisted suicide as a non-resident. There are efforts to allow the suicide “cocktails” and drugs to be sent over state lines in the mail. No clinical visits. No exams. No test results. No confirmation of a terminal illness. No second opinions. Just imposed death — prescribed by a doctor. There is also the real danger of no verification that the patient is cognitively capable of making the decision or that they are not under duress or coercion. In some cases, doctors offer death as a cure.
It’s not a quick and painless death for some.
The Medical Express1 reported on September 8, 2020: “A little-known secret, not publicized by advocates of aid-in-dying, was that while most deaths were speedy, others were very slow. Some patients lingered for six or nine hours; a few, more than three days.”
In March of 2017, the Seattle Times reported2 that doctors were looking for alternative drugs to use because they were taking too long. “The first alternative turned out to be too harsh, burning patients’ mouths and throats, causing some to scream in pain. The second drug mix, used 67 times, has led to deaths that stretched out hours in some patients — and up to 31 hours in one case.”
In 2023, Oregon reported 386 physician assisted suicide deaths. One of the deaths took 137 hours.3 That’s 5 days and 17 hours from ingestion until death. Only 102 of the physician assisted suicides had a physician present and they reported complications for 10% of these deaths. So, it is likely that there were also complications at the assisted suicides where no physician was present.
In 2025, Oregon reported4: “Data on time from ingestion to death are available for 291 DWDA deaths (73%) during 2025. Among those patients, time from ingestion until death ranged from three minutes to 123 hours, with a median time of 46 minutes.”
That’s 5 days and 3 hours from ingestion to death.
Oregon was one of the first states to legalize physician assisted suicide, and their 2025 report raises many red flags:
• There were 637 prescriptions written for suicide poison, but only 400 deaths were reported. What happened to the other 237 doses of prescription poison?
• Only 2 of the 637 patients who told a doctor they wanted to kill themselves, were referred for a psychiatric assessment.
• For 179 of those deaths, the ingestion status is unknown because there is no requirement for medical supervision for the assisted suicide. How can a physician assist without being present?
• We do know that 99 of the 179 died, but we don’t know if the other 80, that received the prescription poison, died.
That’s not healthcare. That’s just doctors imposing death on people.
The goal of the proponents of assisted suicide isn’t compassion; it is to make it so everyone has “access” to physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, regardless of your state’s laws.
Doctors and medicine are supposed to heal, not harm. Beware of the slippery slope.
As we said at the start, human beings dying from euthanasia and assisted suicide is becoming a pandemic. Medical homicide is no longer fiction. It has become such a specialty for some doctors that they are even dreaming up new devices5 to kill people.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself on the dark subject of physician assisted suicide and euthanasia. We encourage you to check out: ImposedDeath.org for more information, resources, and expanded articles.