Week 41/2016 in the Death with Dignity Movement

In the week from October 10 to October 16, 2016:

• As the campaign to pass Proposition 106, the Colorado End of Life Option Act, heated up, the Denver Post editorialized against the measure. Using factually incorrect information and falling for the opponents’ scaremongering rhetoric, the Post point to an alleged lack of safeguards in the proposed law.
• Meanwhile, the Durango Herald and Pueblo Chieftain endorsed the measure (the week before, the Aurora Sentinel did so as well).

Colorado

• “Colorado Wrestles With Ethics Of Aid-In-Dying As Vote Looms,” NPR, 10/11/2016
• “Proposition 106, Medical Aid In Dying Explained,” Colorado Public Radio, 10/11/2016
• “Aid in dying doesn’t increase death, it reduces suffering,” Denver Post, 10/13/2016
• “Guest commentary: Vote yes on Prop 106, give Coloradans choice at the end of life,” Aspen Times, 10/14/2016
• “Election 2016: Answers to questions about Colorado’s proposed medical aid in dying law,” The Tribune, 10/15/2016
• “Proposition 106: The right to die; the time has come,” Pueblo Chieftain, 10/15/2016
• “Assisted-Suicide Fight Moves to Colorado,” Wall Street Journal, 10/16/2016
• “Proposition 106: Medical aid-in-dying offers some control to terminally ill,” Durango Herald, 10/16/2016

District of Columbia

• “The D.C. Council Debates The Death With Dignity Act,” WAMU – The Kojo Njamdi Show, 10/10/2016
• “Lessons for D.C. from my husband’s painful death,” Washington Blade, 10/12/2016

Elsewhere

• Michigan: “Death With Dignity: Should Terminally Ill Patients Be Allowed To Terminate Their Own Lives?” CBS Detroit, 10/12/2016

Other Stories

• “Aid in Dying Movement Advances,” New York Times, 10/10/2016
• “For the very ill, legally ending life is increasingly costly,” Reuters, 10/10/2016

Featured image by Darren Hester.