Week 43/2016 in the Death with Dignity Movement

In the week from October 24 to October 30, 2016:

• The Durango Herald and the Coloradoan endorsed Proposition 106, the Colorado End of Life Options Act.
• A lawsuit was filed in Massachusetts to allow physician-assisted dying under state law.

Colorado

• “Herald endorsements on medical aid-in-dying and the primaries,” Durango Herald, 10/24/2016
• “Colorado considers medically assisted suicide measure,” SF Gate, 10/24/2016
• “Medical aid in dying is a matter of compassion,” Met Media, 10/25/2016
• “Editorial: End of Life Act provides choices,” Coloradoan, 10/26/2016

Elsewhere

• Iowa: “Ex-lawmaker Johnston’s dying plea to current legislators,” Des Moines Register, 10/25/2016
• Massachusetts: “Doctors Ask Court to Approve Assisted Suicide,” Courthouse News Service, 10/27/2016
• New Jersey: “Our view: Let terminally ill freely make choice whether to avoid suffering,” Press of Atlantic City, 10/24/2016

Featured image by David Michalczuk.