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  • Terminally Ill Cancer Patient Survives Doctor-Assisted Suicide Attempt in Oregon

    03/04/2005 12:28:13 PM PST · by aculeus · 49 replies · 1,744+ views
    Tampa Bay on line ^ | March 4, 2005 | The Associated Press
    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A terminally ill cancer patient who tried to end his life with drugs prescribed under Oregon's assisted-suicide law awoke three days later, alert and talkative, his wife said. David Prueitt, who had lung cancer, took what was believed to be a fatal dose of a barbiturate prescribed by his doctor in January. He fell into a coma within minutes, but woke up three days later, said his wife Lynda Romig Prueitt. Prueitt's wife told The Oregonian newspaper that he asked, "Why am I not dead?" Prueitt, 42, lived for two more weeks before dying of natural...