Helping to Bring Life Affirmation Solutions to Stories Like This . . .
January 6, 2009 (burlingtonfreepress.com)
We are beginning to receive messages from advocates about something they call "Death with Dignity" (DWD). It used to be called "physician-assisted suicide."
It is all about a proposed Vermont law that would authorize physicians to provide, to terminally ill patients who request it, a prescription for a fatal dose of sedative.
"Terminally ill" means that you are expected to die within six months. Patients can then take the fatal dose, if and when they wish to. The law would provide controls and restrictions to guard against inappropriate use of this option.
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