The Supreme Court's decisions on physician assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.

最高法庭关于医生协助病人结束生命问题的裁决，对如何用药物减轻病危者的痛苦具有重要的意义。

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But it is very easy to find lots of people who want abortions or physician assisted suicide because they are depressed, afraid, alone, in despair, and cannot see any good in their suffering.

但很容易找到不少这样的人，因为感到沮丧，害怕，孤独，绝望，在痛苦中看不到任何好处，而想堕胎或求医生协助自杀。

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The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.

最高法庭关于医生协助病人结束生命问题的裁决，对于如何用药物减轻病危者的痛苦这个问题来说，具有重要的意义。

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Last November, voters in Massachusetts narrowly defeated a measure legalizing physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

WSJ: Assisted suicide on legal agenda in several states

British Columbia's Supreme Court has struck down a portion of Canada's criminal code that bans physician-assisted suicide.

BBC: Canada judge strikes down assisted suicide ban

Massachusetts is scheduled to vote on a similar law in November, while Montana allows physician-assisted suicide as a result of a court case.

WSJ: Assisted-Suicide Advocate Peter Goodwin Takes Own Life