Maine’s Governor signed a bill into law Wednesday that will make it legal for terminally ill patients to pursue medically assisted suicide. Governor Janet Mills approved the law, named the “Death with Dignity Act,” after it narrowly passed both houses of the Maine legislature.
Two bills allowing physician-assisted suicide failed in New Mexico and Arkansas last week.
Hawaii could become another state that allows physician-assisted suicide.
Doctors in the Netherlands helped kill 4.5 percent of all the people who died in the country in 2015, according to a recent review.
The recent, disturbing criminal trial of Michelle Carter not only tests new legal boundaries, it’s a mirror held up in front of our society.
We could have predicted this: Canada may extend the “right to die” to the mentally ill. It’s an evil idea.
In a new film audiences are taught it’s better and maybe even more romantic to die than to live with a disability. Some qualified voices strongly protest.
Palliative care is coming of age in the modern world of medicine.
The culture of death is claiming new victims—not only at the beginning of life but also at the end of life. Why killing is never compassion. . .
Following success in California — the fifth state where doctors are now free to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally-ill or dying patients — so-called “right-to-die” activists have turned their eyes to Maryland, New York and beyond.
