Washington State: Assisted Suicide Law used for 1st time-rbrianburkhardt

An assisted suicide law in Washington State was used for the first time in the past week. The law was approved by 60% of the voters there last November. This is  more evidence on how fast our culture and our laws are changing. Although many conservative folks oppose this sort of thing, it has been coming for a long time. The cancer patient who formerly stops their

Assisted Suicide law in Washington State used for 1st Time

treatment is very close to  the edge of assisted suicide. A do not resuisatate order also is arguably a form of suicide.

Coming to the brink of suicide is not doing the act however. In this case a 66 year old woman with stage 4  pancreatic cancer legally took her death medication, to bring about her own her passing.

Snippet from the Cnn Article:

“Compassion & Choices, an organization that says it advocates choice for the terminally ill, said Linda Fleming of Sequim, took her prescribed medication and died Thursday evening at home with her family, her dog and her physician.”

It was also reported that 401 people used a similar law enacted in 1994.

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