Edit: Wanting A Say On When To Die
Oregon and Washington have both passed death-with-dignity laws allowing physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Idaho has not.
In the two coastal states, the law makes clear that the person must be terminally ill, not just terribly despondent. Provisions in the law require that the person be fully capable of making the decision. That’s to prevent eager heirs or exhausted caretakers from hurrying along the natural process.
Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old newlywed from Northern California, recently moved to Oregon to take advantage of that state’s law. She expects a brain tumor to kill her in a month or two. If it doesn’t kill her this month, she plans to take a lethal medication prescribed by a doctor. She’ll do it Nov. 1, she says, a few days after her husband’s 30th birthday/
Lee Rozen
, Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
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(AP/Maynard family photo)
Question: Should Idaho follow the lead in Oregon and Washington and adopt a Right to Die law?
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