In the week from June 18 to July 1, 2018:
- The California End of Life Option Act continued providing relief to terminally ill state residents after an appelate court reinstated the law with a stay on a lower court ruling invalidating it.
- The California Department of Public Health released its annual report on the use of the law.
California
- “What’s ignored in the debate over aid in dying,” San Francisco Chronicle, 6/18/2018
- “Interview: The Right To Die Law Has Been Temporarily Reinstated In California,” KSRO, 6/19/2018
- “CA’s Assisted Suicide Law Back On for Now,” Washington Free Beacon, 6/19/2018
- “Aid in Dying, When Suffering Is Unbearable,” New York Times, 6/20/2018
- “Imposing ‘Morals’: As Attorneys Fight in Court Over the Fate of California’s End of Life Option Act, Terminally Ill People Face Legal Limbo,” CV Independent, 6/20/2018
- “Central Coast Voices: Is This the End of the End of Life Option Act?,” KCBX, 6/21/2018
- “Assisted death rate nearly doubled in California in 2017,” Sacramento Bee, 6/22/2018
- “374 People Used California’s Assisted Death Law In 2017,” CBS Sacramento (via Associated Press), 6/22/2018
- “With D.C. and California laws in jeopardy, a fresh debate over medical aid in dying,” USA Today, 6/25/2018
- “Fate of State Assisted Suicide Law Left to Appellate Court,” MyNewsLA.com, 6/29/2018
- “How patients, doctors and police are navigating California’s right-to-die law, now at the mercy of state courts,” OC Register, 6/29/2018
- “Who is exercising their legal right to die in California?” VC Star, 7/1/2018
Around the U.S.
- New Jersey: “On death and dying: Do Jews have a choice?,” New Jersey Jewish News, 6/25/2018
- Wisconsin: “Dr. Zorba Paster: End of life article continues to draw responses,” Wisconsin State Journal, 6/29/2018
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4 Comments.
Arlene Gray
We must be allowed to choose our own end of life options.
Arlene Gray
Please respect our decision.
Janine kent
Hi! I just joined the movement a few days ago. Over the past 10 months our family has watched my mother-in-law and now my mother suffer with terminal cancer..
It has been very heart breaking to watch them both lose their dignity. Both have brain cancer and neurologically impaired. To watch them both being fed, changed and treated like infants is beyond words. My mother-in-law just passed 10 weeks ago & now watching my mom experience the same is just too much. My mother can barely communicate but she tries and basically asks me to kill her & she wants to die.
I am religious and believe in God. I think we treat our beloved animals more humanly than people. Nobody wants to die and when your diagnosis is terminal, why can’t we just be put to sleep & be at peace. The only people benefiting are our pharmaceutical companies , doctors and health care providers.
Until you experience this you cannot begin to understand the strain on the sick individual and family members. Also, not to mention the expense of providing care for the sick whether in a nursing home or @ home which nothing is covered. You have to be very poor and qualify for Medicaid or very rich whereby it doesn’t affect you. So sad what the aging population has to endure during their so called “Golden years”!
Penelope Cox
I agree with you both out of kindness to the person who is ill as well as emotionally and financially. Tho I am a healthy nearly 80 year old, I am realizing more and more the inevitable. I would hope to have things in place, knowing that I am able to save my small family from both financial and emotional horribleness!
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