There's a Boston Globe poll about whether the Massachusetts Legislature should pass the โEnd of Life Options Actโ providing for Medical Aid in Dying aka Death with Dignity. This is *only* for people in the last months of their lives - as certified by multiple health professionals - to take control of their own passing.
As a parent who watched her adult daughter slowly die of cancer in home hospice, I ask you to please vote YES.
#mapoli #deathwithdignity #maid
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#DeathWithDignity legislation trending. Crossed-over #ORLeg would repeal residency requirement in Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
#RightToDie
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1512363
#deathwithdignity #orleg #righttodie
Nevada Passes Bill To Allow Assisted Dying
https://www.newsweek.com/nevada-assisted-dying-bill-joe-lombardo-governor-1802608
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#DeathWithDignity legislation trending. Proposed #HILeg would authorize advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical aid in dying or provide counseling to a qualified patient.
#RightToDie
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1538444https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1538444
#deathwithdignity #hileg #righttodie
Vermont House approves non-resident aid-in-dying
https://vtdigger.org/2023/02/17/vermont-house-approves-non-resident-aid-in-dying/
#deathwithdignity #mylifemydeath
Let's all support ALL of our rights to make our own decisions about our own bodies! Abortion rights, gender-affirming care, AND the right to make our own choice for #DeathWithDignity when the time comes.
#DeathWithDignity trending. Proposed #ORLeg repeals residency requirement in OR Death with Dignity Act. This act authorized access to medical aid in #dyingMedication for terminally ill, mentally capable adults with a prognosis of 6 months or less to live.
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1512363
#deathwithdignity #orleg #dyingmedication
We are kinder to our pets than we are to humans too much of the time, and why? Profits and religion. Zealots force people to endure unnecessary suffering so that somebody can make a profit on them for as long as possible or because of their zealous pursuit to inflict their religion on everyone else. Death with dignity should be the law the of the land.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/this-is-not-how-americans-should
A look at the rising use of New Mexicoโs medical aid-in-dying law.
https://www.abqjournal.com/2564941/two-sisters-were-told-they-had-inoperable-terminal-cancer-one-sister.html #cspanwj #deathwithdignity
Feds to investigate nursing home abuse of antipsychotics https://apnews.com/article/ad76a524c9e97c5eaf857d89c4119b34
#endoflife #deathwithdignity #antipsychotics #opioids #opioidepidemic
this is a letter i wrote in the comments section of the NYTimes about the subject - please consider the current pushback against medication is inhumane
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I am thankful that I can choose whether super human efforts will be made to keep me alive but the reality of #dnr when the time comes sucks for *everyone* involved. The patient is left, drugged up, to suffer as "nature is left to take its course" and loved ones have to watch, powerless. Adults should be able to choose their destiny, how and when they should go, #deathwithdignity.
โCalifornia provides a useful point of comparison: It legalized medically assisted death the same year as Canada, 2016, and it has about the same population, just under forty million. In 2021 in California, 486 people died using the stateโs assisted suicide program. In Canada in the same year, 10,064 people used MAID [โMedical Assistance in Dying] to die.โ
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/no-other-options
#canada #maid #deathwithdignity #euthanasia
@jilllightner do any of the secular systems offer that either though? (Not that that makes Catholic control betterโฆ but it was my impression you basically have to find a private practitioner to get a #DeathWithDignity prescription
@Angry_RN @nekodojo @CaptMorgan @dusnm @wiseguyeddie -
YES, YES, and YES. AND abortion and contraception and interracial marriages, and #DeathWithDignity, etc.
Those are the reasons I decided to openly label myself #Atheist!
[I am a strong LGBTQ+ ally]
@IrwinFletcher0 @seeme @mikemadrid -
... Crocheting is off-topic, or the LGBTQ+ site says NO to pro-#DeathWithDignity posts.
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