Stories tagged with: assisted suicide

• Assisted suicide: N.M., Hawaii bills push envelope

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, February 07, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

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  SANTA FE, N.M. (BP) -- Legislators in 15 U.S. states are considering proposals to legalize assisted suicide, with a leading patients' rights group flagging bills in New Mexico and Hawaii as particularly concerning.

  The other 13 states considering assisted suicide are Arizona, Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah and Wyoming, according to the Patients Rights Council (PRC), a group that opposes assisted suicide legislation. Read More

• Study: Most Americans say assisted suicide morally OK

  by Bob Smietana, posted Wednesday, December 07, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The American Medical Association has described physician-assisted suicide as a serious risk to society and "fundamentally incompatible with a physician's role as healer." But Millions of Americans disagree, according to a new study released Tuesday (Dec. 6) by LifeWay Research.

  Two-thirds say it is morally acceptable for terminally ill patients to ask their doctors for help in ending their lives, according to a new survey from Nashville-based LifeWay Research. A similar number says doctors should be able to help terminally ill patients die. Read More

• Physician-assisted suicide approved in Colorado

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, November 09, 2016 (7 years ago)

  DENVER, Colo. (BP) -- Colorado voters overwhelmingly legalized physician-assisted suicide Nov. 8, joining five other states where similar laws already exist. Read More

• Colorado voters may legalize assisted suicide

  by Tom Strode, posted Monday, October 31, 2016 (7 years ago)

  A humane culture laments death, rather than distributing it as a marketable good." -- Russell Moore

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Colorado may be on the verge of becoming the latest state to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

  The state's voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative Nov. 8 that would enable doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to people who have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses and supposedly have less than six months to live. If the measure passes, Colorado would become the sixth state to legalize assisted suicide in some form. Read More

• Teen is youngest legal euthanasia victim in Belgium

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, September 19, 2016 (8 years ago)

  BRUSSELS, Belgium (BP) -- A terminally ill 17-year-old has become the first minor to die of euthanasia in Belgium, the French news agency AFP reported Sunday (Sept. 18).

  Belgium lifted age restrictions on euthanasia in 2014, becoming the first country in the world to allow terminally-ill children of any age to choose death, as long as certain conditions are met.

  Neither the teen's identity nor medical condition prior to the procedure were ... Read More

• Hospitals weigh Calif. assisted suicide law

  by Samantha Gobba/WORLD News Service, posted Wednesday, July 20, 2016 (8 years ago)

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP) -- Some California hospitals are opting out of the state's new assisted suicide law allowing qualifying adults with a terminal illness to request a lethal drug from their doctor.

  The End of Life Option Act, signed in October and effective since June 9, made California the fourth state -- along with Oregon (1997), Vermont (2013) and Washington (2008) -- to legalize some form of assisted suicide. Read More

• Suicide law called unjust, grotesque

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, October 07, 2015 (8 years ago)

  "Legal assisted suicide is a blight upon any culture's conscience." -- Russell Moore

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- California's newly enacted assisted suicide law is an affront to human dignity and the practice of medicine, Southern Baptist ethicists say.

  Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act into law Oct. 5, making California the fourth state with legalized, physician-assisted suicide. The measure enables a person who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness to request a prescribed drug ... Read More

• Assisted suicide bill passed in Calif.

  by David Roach, posted Monday, September 14, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP) -- When California lawmakers passed an assisted suicide bill, a San Diego-area pastor says, they exceeded their authority by attempting to legislate in a realm governed by God.

  "It saddens me," said Rolland Slade, pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, Calif., "that in the state where I live and have grown up, the legislature has stepped outside of their authority and in essence said, 'We'll make decisions now. We'll enable people to make decisions in terms of life,' when that's God's decision. Read More

• God and assisted suicide: What's the answer?

  by Randy C. Davis, posted Thursday, July 30, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Randy C. Davis, executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, addresses the issue of assisted suicide and "three theological pillars" that can help during "soul-shattering moments at death's door." Read More

• Tennesseans await ruling on physician-assisted suicide

  by Lonnie Wilkey/Baptist & Reflector, posted Thursday, July 30, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The issue of physician-assisted suicide or death with dignity has surfaced in Tennessee.

  Earlier this year the Tennessee General Assembly failed to act on a bill which would have allowed doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs when requested by terminally ill patients.

  In May, however, well-known Tennessee lawyer and politician John Jay Hooker filed a lawsuit challenging state law that makes it a felony to assist in a suicide, according to a report in The Tennessean on July 10. ... Read More