The bill would let terminally ill patients access medication to end their lives.
Assisted suicide
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Proponents of aid-in-dying legislation see path forward
The state medical society, long opposed to the aid-in-dying measure, recently adopted a position of “engaged neutrality.”
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Connecticut’s assisted suicide issue is not going away
On Oct. 5, 2015, California became the fifth state to pass the law to legalize assisted suicide. This has been in the news recently when 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, who had terminal brain cancer, chose to go to Oregon and die. Oregon is one of the states that has legal physician assisted suicide. The question of […]
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Opposition to aid in dying in Connecticut is an exercise in speculation
I would like to respond to the article titled “Physician-assisted suicide is not a choice issue,” which appeared in the March 25 edition of CT Mirror and was written by Lisa Blumberg. In simplest terms, her letter denounces aid in dying, which is immediately evidence by her use of the term “physician-assisted suicide.” Death with dignity is a sensible death; suicide, as we normally think of it, is a senseless death. I strongly support aid in dying (also referred to as death with dignity) because I believe that it is a person’s right and that in well-defined circumstances, it is a compassionate and helpful option.
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Anguish for her loss, but no support for assisted suicide
Let’s spend our scarce state resources improving access to modern palliative care techniques, increasing funding for home health-care aides and research into treatments that will improve care for the elderly, not fulfill suicide fantasies.
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Op-Ed: Physician-assisted suicide is not a choice issue
Proponents of assisted suicide call the concept aid-in-dying. They view it as a choice issue, much like same-sex marriage, an idea whose time has come. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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Op-Ed: Her story in support of ending one’s life with dignity
Death with dignity is a tough issue for many of us. Although I have co-sponsored the bill before the Legislature, I didn’t always support the concept. When I started to think about it as a matter of individual choice, I realized what a personal and intimate decision it was.
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Her story in support of ending one’s life with dignity
Death with dignity is a tough issue for many of us. Although I have co-sponsored the bill before the Legislature, I didn’t always support the concept. When I started to think about it as a matter of individual choice, I realized what a personal and intimate decision it was.
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Physician-assisted suicide is not a choice issue
Proponents of assisted suicide call the concept aid-in-dying. They view it as a choice issue, much like same-sex marriage, an idea whose time has come. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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The end-of-life debate
Should doctors be allowed to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it? As Connecticut lawmakers consider the issue, scores of people weighed in Wednesday, with testimony that was often emotional. Here’s a recap of our live coverage.
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Malloy still conflicted on right-to-die proposal
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday that he remains conflicted about a controversial proposal to allow physicians to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill, mentally competent patients who request it.
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Op-Ed: Civil liberty should include freedom to decide on dying as well as living
Protecting civil liberties requires us to defend certain choices and an individual’s right to make them. Most of the choices we defend involve how people live. However, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut and Compassion & Choices-Connecticut are allied in believing that people have a right to make informed decisions about the end of their lives as well.
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On polarizing end-of-life issue, what changes minds?
Once again, lawmakers are considering the question of whether to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill, mentally competent people who request it. It’s a polarizing issue, one that many people view through profound, often painful personal experiences. So how do you change people’s minds?
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Op-Ed: Assisted suicide would be fraught with problems and abuses
Rather than allowing assisted suicide, let us honor Connecticut’s progressive tradition against discrimination by ensuring equal access to noncoercive suicide prevention services for old, ill, and disabled people,
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Assisted suicide would be fraught with problems and abuses
Rather than allowing assisted suicide, let us honor Connecticut’s progressive tradition against discrimination by ensuring equal access to noncoercive suicide prevention services for old, ill, and disabled people,