Becomes 16th state to reject legislation in 2017 A bill that would have legalized assisted suicide in Nevada died in an Assembly committee as the 2017 legislative session expired. The Nevada Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services chose not to advance the bill on Tuesday, the last day of the legislative calendar. The state …
A bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware has cleared a House committee. Lawmakers on the Democrat-led committee voted along party lines Wednesday to send the bill to the full House, even though some Democratic committee members said they don’t support the legislation in its current form. The legislation allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal …
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A Las Vegas doctor says that he remembers the account described in an anti-assisted-suicide advertisement of an insurer denying life-saving treatment to a patient, while pushing doctors to move forward with a prescription of lethal drugs. Dr. Sameer Tapryal was a senior resident at the University of Nevada-Reno School of Medicine when Dr. Brian Callister, …
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A Massachusetts judge ruled that two doctors may move forward with a lawsuit seeking an order that the state’s murder and manslaughter laws do not apply to physicians who offer lethal medications to terminally ill patients. Superior Court Judge Mary Ames in Boston in a ruling last week declined to dismiss the lawsuit by the …
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