What is a 'Variable Interest Rate'. A variable interest rate is an interest rate on a loan or security that fluctuates over time, because it is based on an underlying benchmark interest rate or index that changes periodically.
Is suicide a crime? Historically, various states listed the act as a felony, but all were reluctant to enforce it. By 1963, six states still considered attempted suicide a crime (North and South Dakota, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oklahoma, which repealed its law in 1976). By the early 1990s only two U.S. states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification. In some U.S. states, suicide is still considered an unwritten common law crime as stated in Blackstone's Commentaries.
Assisted suicide is legal in Oregon and the Netherlands. In the United States, the state of Oregon is the only state to allow physician-assisted suicide. Oregon State legalized assisted suicide in 1997.The Netherlands is the only country that has legalized assisted suicide.hat is the difference between physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia? Physician-assisted suicide allows a patient to intentionally kill him/herself with the planning and help of a doctor and a pharmacist.