6. Between Oct. 27, 1997 (when the Oregon Death with Dignity Act was passed) and 2017, 1,257 people in the state of Oregon have died from lethal drugs prescribed under the terms of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.

7. On Nov. 5, 2008, Washington became the second US state to legalize physician-assisted suicide after voters approved a ballot initiative (59% to 41%) to implement the Washington Death with Dignity Act.

8. Euthanasia is legal in four countries worldwide: Belgium, Colombia, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

9. On Dec. 5, 2008, Montana district judge Dorothy McCarter made Montana the third state with legal physician-assisted suicide with her ruling in the case of Baxter v. Montana

10. The original text of the ancient Greek Hippocratic Oath, written sometime between 460 and 380 BC, contained prohibitions against surgery, abortion, and euthanasia. It is still taken (in some form) by many medical school graduates.

11. The earliest American statute to explicitly outlaw assisted suicide was enacted in New York on Dec. 10, 1828.