Posted by Katy Grimes at 9:45 pm on Feb 11, 2015 Comments Off on Suicide is Tragic to Many, But Preferable to CA Dem Lawmakers
Actor Robin Williams’ suicide is considered tragic and horrific.
But many of the same people who expressed horror over Williams’
suicide say legally assisted suicide is acceptable, beneficial, and
even “honorable.”
Rather than waiting for recently proposed assisted suicide
legislation to work through the legislative committee process, a
new lawsuit filed Wednesday asks the California Superior Court to
find that physicians who provide a assisted suicide prescriptions
should not be subject to criminal prosecution for assisting another
to “commit suicide.”
The lawsuit wants the court to declare that patients facing the
end of life have a “civil right” under the California State
Constitution “to make their own decisions about their bodies.”
“If the lawsuit succeeds, terminally ill Californians, like
Brittany Maynard, would not have to leave the state to receive
legal aid in dying,” the press statement said. Filed by
Californians with cancer, physicians, and a national nonprofit
disability rights advocacy group, Disability Rights Legal Center,
the lawsuit is attempting to “clarify the ability of mentally
competent, terminally… Read More