Vermont becomes America's first 'suicide tourism' state trends now
Vermont becomes America's first 'suicide tourism' state trends now
Vermont becomes America's first 'suicide tourism' state: New bill allows terminally ill patients from anywhere in US to take advantage of its assisted dying law
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Vermont became the first state in the US on Tuesday to remove a requirement that anyone seeking assisted suicide there be a resident of the state.
The state is one of 10 in the US that allows assisted suicide. The others include Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia.
The removal of the Vermont residency requirement signed into law by Republican Gov Phil Scott opens the door to a concept known as 'suicide tourism', which involves traveling to a jurisdiction where assisted
