When legislators in Sacramento passed a reasonable and conservative assisted-suicide law in 2015, California was only the fifth U.S state to allow terminally ill people to obtain a lethal prescription. Giving dying people who have six months or less to live an alternative to terrible pain and suffering was the compassionate and correct thing to do, so it’s no surprise that Colorado and Washington,
Reporting from New York — Putting a modern spin on the definition of manslaughter, a Massachusetts judge found Michelle Carter guilty in the death of an 18-year-old friend she had instructed to kill himself in a series of text messages and mobile-telephone conversations. The decision by Bristol Juvenile Judge Lawrence Moniz in the bench trial could have future ramifications for criminal cases in
The seemingly peaceful death four years ago is now the subject of an investigation by Los Angeles police and the district attorney’s office. Homicide detectives are looking into an allegation by a coroner’s investigator that the anesthesiologist gave Cole a fatal dose of the opioid fentanyl to hasten his death and increase the likelihood his organs could be harvested. No charges have been brought.
On June 9 California will join four other states — Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Montana — in allowing physician-assisted suicide. Meanwhile, my state, Arizona, and a dozen or so others are considering their own “right to die” laws. As a hospice physician, about twice a year I am asked by a patient to prescribe a lethal dose of a medication. Oncologists throughout the country report that up to h
Reporting from Sacramento — California’s terminally ill patients should begin talking to physicians now if they want to end their lives, advocates said Thursday after a legislative vote triggered a June 9 start date for the End of Life Option Act. The law, which allows doctors in California to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill people who want to hasten their deaths, includes a tim
Terminally ill cancer patient Barbara Wagner’s doctor wrote a prescription several years ago intended to extend her life a few extra months. But Oregon’s government-run healthcare program declined to pay for the pricey drug, saying the projected odds of the medicine’s keeping her alive were too low. Adding to the distress of the rejection, Wagner later complained publicly, was what else was includ
Reporting from Sacramento — As he faces an Oct. 7 deadline to sign or veto a bill allowing aid-in-dying measures in California, Gov. Jerry Brown and his staff have talked to terminally ill Californians, an indication he is open to considering their plea for approval of the bill. Former LAPD Det. Christy O’Donnell, a lung cancer patient who has been given just months to live, said Friday she was r
State lawmakers shouldn’t have subverted their own rules to allow a “right to die” bill to pass Friday during a special session on healthcare for the poor. Nevertheless, Gov. Jerry Brown should sign it, no matter what he thinks about how it reached his desk. The process stunk, as the worst kind of sausage making does. The right-to-die proposal, which would allow terminally ill patients to hasten d
To the editor: If there were a Pulitzer Prize for the most effective use of euphemisms, then this editorial on the “right to die” bill sitting on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk would be a contender. (“How the ‘right to die’ bill made it to a vote was wrong, but Brown should sign it anyway,” editorial, Sept. 15) There is a very simple phrase to describe what this bill would legalize: assisted suicide. Yet
Reporting from Sacramento — Gov. Jerry Brown was specific about his goals when he called two special legislative sessions. Lawmakers, he said, should bring him new plans for financing public healthcare and road repairs, problems that have festered for years. But he could get much more than he bargained for as lawmakers from both parties seize an opportunity to push a raft of tangential and even u
Reporting from Sacramento — Stalled by the deep personal beliefs of many lawmakers, a proposal that would allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients in California was sidelined Tuesday. The measure passed the state Senate last month. But on Tuesday, the authors concluded that it did not have enough support to pass the Assembly Health Committee and withdrew it f
Ira Byock, one of the nation’s leading experts on hospice and palliative care, rushed into Westlake High School’s advanced anatomy classroom. Delayed by traffic on the 405, he was late for a talk with students at the Westlake Village school about some serious stuff: dying, pain, loss. Inevitably, he knew, he’d face a question or two about assisted suicide. ------------ FOR THE RECORD Ira Byock: In
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