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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Washington State: SB 5919 passes Senate!
SB 5919, clarifying that patients who request assisted suicide have the right to be told about options for cure or to extend life, has PASSED the Senate! The vote was a bipartisan, 34-14, with one member excused. To see the vote breakdown, click here .
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Utah: Problems with H.B. 391
By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
H.B. 391 seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Utah. I am a lawyer in Washington State where we have a similar law. Our law is based on a law in Oregon.
Problems include:
1. HB 391, if enacted, will encourage people with years to live to throw away their lives.
HB 391 seeks to legalize assisted suicide for persons with a "terminal disease," which is defined as having less than six months to live. In Oregon's law, which uses the same definition, young adults with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, are "eligible" for assisted suicide. Such persons can have years, even decades, to live. See https://choiceisanillusion.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/a-2270-3r-memo-12-02-14.pdf "Eligible" patients can also have years to live because doctors can be wrong. See https://choiceisanillusion.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/terminal-uncertainty.pdf and https://choiceisanillusion.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/signed-john-norton-affidavit_001.pdf
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Massachusetts: High School Student Charged with Manslaughter for Encouraging Suicide
BY
JIM HAND SUN CHRONICLE STAFF | Posted: Friday, February 27, 2015 1:00
am
PLAINVILLE A King Philip Regional High School senior has been indicted for involuntary
manslaughter, allegedly for urging a friend to commit suicide. She then raised
money for mental illness in the name of her friend.
Michelle
Carter, 18, of Plainville was indicted as a “youthful offender” by a Bristol
County grand jury, and was arraigned in New Bedford Juvenile Court.
She
is accused of urging Conrad Roy III, 18, of Fairhaven and Mattapoisett to kill
himself, which he did while idling a truck last July in the parking lot of a
Fairhaven Kmart. Authorities said he died of carbon monoxide
poisoning.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Washington State: SB 5919 on the move!
Last night, SB 5919, which clarifies that a person considering assisted suicide has the right to be told of options for cure or to extend life, has passed out of the Law & Justice Committee.
The vote was bipartisan. The seven member committee voted as follows: 6 "do pass" and 1 "without recommendation." See here
The vote was bipartisan. The seven member committee voted as follows: 6 "do pass" and 1 "without recommendation." See here
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