Assisted Suicide

[EastCoastNiner]

Would you guys vote yes or no on this bill? Also, is there a similar bill or any law passages in your state about assisted suicide?

 

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2012/10/20/mass-voters-consider-physician-assisted-suicide/9zttqLoe8G5I8nmOlMd49M/story.html

[Chopps]

Look to Europe to the Netherlands... Best Law ever..

[Sħãlïq™]

Look to Europe to the Netherlands... Best Law ever..

The only four places that today openly and legally, authorize active assistance in dying of patients, are:

• Oregon (since l997, physician-assisted suicide only);
  
• Switzerland (1941, physician and non-physician assisted suicide only);
  
• Belgium (2002, permits 'euthanasia' but does not define the method;
  
• Netherlands (voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide lawful since April 2002 but permitted by the courts since l984).

(...) The Netherlands permits voluntary euthanasia as well as physician-assisted suicide, while both Oregon and Switzerland bar death by injection.

Dutch law enforcement will crack down on any non-physician assisted suicide they find, recently sentencing an old man to six months imprisonment for helping a sick, old woman to die.

AssistedSuicide.org/Suicide_Laws.html

 

Children 12 to 16 years old may request and receive euthanasia or assisted suicide. A parent or guardian must “agree with the termination of life or the assisted suicide”.

Holland’s Euthanasia Law

[EastCoastNiner]

That was a damn close vote.

 

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mass-votes-physician-assisted-suicide-article-1.1198305