Where is assisted dying legal? How the rules worldwide compare

Where is assisted dying legal? How the rules worldwide compare 
The Times, London, UK; by Bruno Waterfield, Josie Ensor, and Bernard Lagan; 10/16/24
In 1937, Switzerland legalised assisted suicide provided those doing the assisting were not motivated by “any selfish intent”. Six decades later, the US state of Oregon legalised physician-assisted suicide for people with less than six months to live. In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country in the world to decriminalise assisted dying. In the two decades since, the debate around a state or nation’s approach to life and death has sped up. Belgium, Australia and ten more US states have decriminalised forms of assisted dying. The approach varies, but they all fall under the umbrella of assisted dying, a term that usually refers either to euthanasia — the practice of a doctor administering a lethal drug — or to assisted suicide, in which a person self-administers a lethal drug, often after someone has helped them to procure it. [Click on the title's link for its list of comparisons.]