Guide to North American Birds. Spotted Towhee. A widespread towhee of the West, sometimes abundant in chaparral and on brushy mountain slopes. For many years it was considered to belong to the same species as the unspotted Eastern Towhees found east of the Great Plains, under the name of Rufous-sided Towhee. The Spotted Towhee differs in the heavy white spotting on its upperparts, and its songs and callnotes are more variable and much harsher in tone. It often is first noticed because of the sound of its industrious scratching in the leaf-litter under dense thickets.
As of October 2015, human euthanasia is legal only in the Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia and Luxembourg. Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Albania and in the US states of Washington, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Montana and California (effective January 1, 2016).
Assisted suicide and euthanasia are both illegal in all states; it's when someone else administers lethal medications to a patient. In this video, family medicine specialist David Grube, MD, explains how aid in dying practices are different. Honor Society of Nursing (STTI) answered. Although the terms assisted suicide and euthanasia are often used interchangeably, they are actually different. Euthanasia is a more global term which includes assisted suicide but may involve other methods of ending life.