Friday, June 10, 2016

Californians With Terminal Illness Now Have The Right To Die On Their Own Terms

California’s new right-to-die law went into effect Thursday, allowing terminally ill patients to choose to end their own lives.

“Simply having the option of medical aid in dying and the ability to shorten an unbearable dying process provides great peace of mind to terminally ill people and to their families,” Stanford Medicine physician Catherine Sonquist Forest told reporters Wednesday.

Under the End of Life Option Act, which passed last year, terminally ill patients with a prognosis of six months or less to live can obtain a prescription for a lethal dose of medication....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-right-to-die_us_57583de8e4b0e39a28ac1e27


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