If I were suffering unbearable pain and had exhausted all of my medical or palliative options and knowing that it was just a matter of time before I would die, as a fully competent adult, I should have the right to choose the right to
death with dignity as my conscious choice to end my sufferings.
health.oregon.gov under Oregon
Death with Dignity Act.
I've been in contact with the national
Death With Dignity groups and they didn't want to talk to me.
Oregon was the first state to allow physician aid in dying in 1997, when voters approved the
Death with Dignity Act.
A few years ago a young, zestful 29-year old California woman, Brittany Maynard, was diagnosed with life threatening brain cancer and moved to Oregon to be able to take advantage of their
Death with Dignity law.
Those who favour "
death with dignity" have no understanding whatsoever of what human life means.
Law, Man Plans to Take His Own Life"; Ryan Haarer, "
Death with Dignity Legislation Being Drafted in Colorado," 9News, November 17, 2014, http://www.9news.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/17/death-with-lignity-colorado-joann-ginal/19193147/.
To be eligible for the
Death with Dignity laws, you must be a resident of one of those states, 18 years of age or older, and diagnosed with a terminal illness that will cause your death within six months.
Her husband Dan took extended leave from his job and Brittany, along with her family, moved from California to Oregon where the so-called
Death With Dignity Act exists.
Her husband Dan took extended leave from his job and Brittany, along with her family moved from California to Oregon, where the so-called
Death with Dignity Act exists.