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| Margaret Dore, Esq. "[W]ill people be killed by their heirs and other perpetrators in a black hole of wishful thinking?" |
To Chairman Keith-Agaran and members of the Committee:
[The proposed act in SB 1129 SD 1 seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide and allow euthanasia. My memo and documentation opposing the act can be viewed here and here].
The act will encourage people with years or decades to live to throw away their lives. (See memo, pp 3-6). The act is a recipe for elder abuse, especially for those in the middle class and above in the inheritance situation. (Id., pp. 8-9). The act creates the perfect crime in which the death is allowed to occur in private, without oversight, and the death certificate gives perpetrators a "stay out of jail free card." (Id., pp. 10-13).
