Assisted suicide opponents are accusing Democrats in New Jersey of manipulating the legislative process to pass the controversial bill. On Thursday, the Senate Committee on Health, Human Services, and Seniors voted 6-3 to advance legislation that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to patients diagnosed...
"New Jersey doctors would be legally permitted to write prescriptions to enable terminally ill patients to end their lives under legislation that advanced Thursday after a dramatic hearing in Trenton. The “Aid in Dying” bill cleared the state Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee...
New Jersey’s legislators cleared the latest hurdle in a bid to legalize assisted suicide, reports say. NJ.com reported Thursday that the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee voted 6-3 in favor of the Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, which would allow...
https://youtu.be/CFMmL2s_FbQ Kristen Hanson of the Patients Rights Action Fund testified her husband was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2014 and was given four months to live. He died in 2018. She asked the committee to improve care, not assisted suicide. The N.J. Senate health committee held...
Though individuals with disabilities are not usually terminally ill, the terminally ill are almost always disabled or will become so as their condition progresses. For this reason and others, the point of view of someone who has severe disabilities may offer meaningful insight into this...
The Netherlands was the first to cross this particular Rubicon. It legalised euthanasia in 2002 for people who doctors judged to be experiencing unbearable suffering. Children as young as 12 are entitled to have their request to be killed considered. Parental consent is required up to...
Christine Allison and her husband, Troy, were watching television in their Columbus, Ohio, home last July when his breathing became erratic. She dialed paramedics and fetched her husband a paper bag to calm him while they waited. "I'll see you in a minute," she said in...
A great deal of media attention was given to 104 year-old Australian scientist, David Goodall, last year when he decided that he was ready to die, even though he had no terminal illness, and traveled to Switzerland to commit assisted suicide. Masazo Nonaka chose a different...
The airwaves are buzzing with the story about an Ohio hospital and doctor and deceased patients. Death by fentanyl? Incompetence or negligence? Intentional to reduce prolonged suffering? “Mercy killings?” Physician-assisted death is not legal in Ohio. However, Ohio State Senator Charleta Tavares, D-Columbus, introduced SB 249, Ohio...
