In the week from from November 30 to December 6:
- The end-of-year, holiday giving season kicked off with #GivingTuesday.
- A renamed Death with Dignity bill will return to the legislature in Colorado.
Colorado
- “Emotions run high on talk of life-ending medication,” Coloradoan, 12/6/2015
- “Ginal re-frames death with dignity bill for 2016,” Coloradoan, 12/4/2015
- “Colorado lawmakers and possibly voters to consider end-of-life legislation,” Durango Herald, 12/3/2015
- Residents who want aid-in-dying legislation meet in Durango,” Durango Herald, 12/2/2015
- “Effort underway to make Colorado 5th state allowing physicians to prescribe aid-in-dying medication,” ABC-Denver 7, 12/2/2015
- “Physician-Assisted Death Proponents Begin New Legislative Push,” Colorado Public Radio, 12/2/2015
Elsewhere
- Connecticut: “Connecticut’s assisted suicide issue is not going away,” CT Viewpoints, 12/4/2015
- Maryland: Libertarian Party of Maryland endorses the Death with Dignity Act” Libertarian Party of Maryland, 11/27/2015
- Michigan: “Death with dignity gains steam — but not necessarily in Michigan,” Traverse City Record Eagle, 12/5/2015
- Minnesota: “Session at UMD to focus on right to die for terminally ill,” Duluth News Tribune, 12/4/2015
Other Stories
- “[P]roductive conversations about right-to-die laws are unusually difficult, precisely because they require people across different groups to stop denying death and contemplate its reality. [W]e can do our best to ensure that those who choose to end their lives do so because they love life, rather than because they fear death.” A contemplation on the cultural aspects of death and physician-assisted dying. “Our fear of death makes us lousy at passing right-to-die laws,” Quartz, 11/29/2015
Featured image credit: Spencer E Holtaway.
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