Oregon has become America’s first ‘death tourism’ destination, where terminally ill people from Texas and other states that have outlawed assisted suicide have started travelling to get their hands on a deadly cocktail of drugs to end their lives, DailyMail.com can reveal.
In the liberal bastion Portland, at least one clinic has started receiving out-of-staters who have less than six months to live and meet the other strict requirements of the state’s Death with Dignity (DWD) law.
Dr Nicholas Gideonse, the director of End of Life Choices Oregon, recently told a panel that he was advising terminally ill non-residents on travelling to Oregon to end their lives, despite a legal gray area.
Dr Gideonse, an advocate of ‘magic mushroom’ therapy, said he was helping a Texan man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease and a hospice patient on the East Coast, but added that there were not yet ‘tons of people coming from all over’.
‘But for a small number of patients who otherwise qualify or are determined to go through that and who have the energy and the resources … it has started to happen,’ he said.