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No states in the US describe euthanasia as being legal. However, physician-assisted suicide has been legalized in a few states now. The difference between the two is that in euthanasia, the doctor administers the lethal drug to the patient while in physician-assisted suicide, the doctor provides the means (usually a lethal drug) to the patient, which end their own life.

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