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Highlights:
• Passing the act will encourage people with years, even decades, to live, to throw away their lives.
• The proposed act is sold as completely voluntary, but doesn’t even have a provision requiring administration of the lethal dose to be voluntary.
• Administration of the lethal dose is allowed to occur in private without a doctor or witness present. If the patient objected or struggled, who would know?
• The death certificate is required to list a terminal disease as the cause of death. The significance is that prosecution will not be possible. The death will be a terminal disease (not murder) as a matter of law.
• Elder abuse is already a not well controlled problem. Passing the proposed act will make the situation worse.
• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, even when voluntary, can be traumatic for patients and families.
• Passage will likely lead to suicide contagion.
Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
Law Offices of Margaret K.Dore
Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation
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