Over the past quarter-century, opponents of physician-assisted death have argued against the practice on the grounds that vulnerable groups—the very old, the poor, and the mentally ill, to name three—would turn to, or be pushed toward, such deaths in disproportionate numbers. http://ljsheehan.blogspot.com

  A review of records from Oregon and the Netherlands undermines that argument.

Instead, people who receive help dying tend to be better educated and better off than the general