I am very glad the AMA is studying the issue of aid in dying. Opponents to the legalization of aid in dying put quotes around the term, apparently to indicate that it is a euphemism for what they believe is physician-assisted suicide. But aid in dying is not suicide.
On 9/11 witnesses saw a number of people trapped in the World Trade Center intentionally jump to their deaths. None of those deaths were ruled suicides by the medical examiner. The death certificates for the jumpers list the cause of death as homicide.
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