Primum non nocere
MANIFESTO
As one who knows at least one person who decided to end her life with assistance and who has seen the ravages of old age affect various friends and relations, I'm struck by the big story in the Constitution State this morning.Two Connecticut physicians and end-of-life advocates have filed a lawsuit in Hartford Superior Court seeking to clarify whether a decades-old law banning assisted suicide affects doctors who help their terminally ill patients die.The state's hysterics are a little taken aback over the concept, but giving Connecticut doctors the right to help out terminal patients seems like a no-brainer to me.
Dr. Gary Blick, a Norwalk physician who specializes in treating patients with HIV/AIDS, said Wednesday that he and Dr. Ron Levine of Cos Cob want the court to declare physicians will not face criminal charges if they provide a prescription to mentally competent patients who want to use medication to end their life peacefully.
Connecticut law makes it a crime to assist another person in committing suicide, which Blick vehemently denies is what he and Levine are advocating.
posted by monocle at 10/08/2009 07:37:00 AM
4 Comments:
I argued this as my position speech in my 11th grade English class. Not much movement on this in what, 14 years?
I believe this was the same set of speeches where Chill argued that John Rowland was a racist (pre his election)
Sounds about right. I think it was Rowland's repeated use of the phrase "those people," or something similar, that got me riled up.
Whaaaaat??
A Waterbury Republican a racist?
Say it isn't so!
That it was so obvious that a 16 year-old noticed but nobody else seemed to care is perhaps equally unsurprising.
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