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CALIFORNIA: LEGAL SUICIDE BY JUNE 9
2016-04-05 19:26:58 Post No. 70024847
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CALIFORNIA: LEGAL SUICIDE BY JUNE 9
Anonymous
2016-04-05 19:26:58
Post No. 70024847
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Doctor-assisted dying will be legal in California from June 9th
>https://archive.is/m8tLv
>Highlights:
[California Governor Jerry]Brown supported the bill via a special legislative session called to discuss (among other things) how the state should pay for doctor-assisted dying.
>End yourself
>Someone else pays for it
>Californians: Government until the end
With strict safeguards: two doctors must agree that a patient has less than six months to live, and the patient must have undergone rigorous questioning to make sure that he or she is of sound mind and really wants to die.)
>Suicidal thoughts = sound mind?
>Really?
...on March 30th the state’s senate health committee voted to pass a bill on to the senate’s appropriations committee that would establish a free telephone helpline providing information to those considering taking their lives with the support of physicians.
Sceptics fear that California’s new law will prompt a rush of medically assisted suicides. That is unlikely: in Oregon, which has had a very similar law since 1997, fewer than a thousand people have used it to take their own lives.
California is ten times as populous as Oregon, but its Department of Health Care Services predicts that in the first year fewer than 450 seriously ill individuals will ask the state’s Medicaid programme for a prescription of lethal drugs. And not all will take the pills they are prescribed.
For some Californians, the fact that there is a date from which people can choose to take their own lives with the help of medical professionals is deeply troubling.
Around one in five people in the Pacific region of the United States polled by Ipsos Mori for The Economist last year said doctor-assisted dying should not be allowed. Some of them will be counting down the days with dread.
But more—seven in ten in the same poll—supported the right.
For a handful who are terminally ill, June 9th cannot come soon enough.
>inb4 Less Californians: The Law
