A study conducted by the Southern Medical Association has found that, despite suggestions that legalization of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) could lead to a reduction in total suicides and to a delay in those suicides that do occur, legalizing PAS has been associated with an increased rate of total suicides relative to other states and no decrease in nonassisted suicides. This suggests either that PAS does not inhibit (nor acts as an alternative to) nonassisted suicide, or that it acts in this way in some individuals but is associated with an increased inclination to suicide in other individuals.
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