HOSPITAL CHAIN REFUSES TO COOPERATE WITH ASSISTED SUICIDE IN STATE OF WASHINGTON
NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Days after voters in the state of Washington approved a bill allowing doctors to assist their patients in suicide, the state's largest hospital system has announced that it "will not support physician-assisted suicide." Providence Health Care said that the decision "is grounded in our basic values of respect for the sacredness of life, compassionate care of dying and vulnerable persons, and respect for the integrity of medical, nursing, and allied health professions. We do not believe health care providers should ever be put in a position of aiding a patient in taking his or her own life.”