“…4 The most probable explanation for the low reported rate is that the two much-contested topics, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, have different legal status in different countries around the world. 30 The former is legal in Switzerland, Japan, Albania, and parts of the Unites States (Washington, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Montana, and California), whereas both are legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia, Canada, and Luxembourg. 30,31 The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concluded that the majority of the European Member States appears to attach more weight to the protection of an individual's life than to his/her right to terminate it.…”