Judge overturns right to die law in Calif

[Gracie]

Judge Overturns California's Right-To-Die Law | HuffPost

Lovely. We treat our animals better than we do human beings that are suffering.
If someone wants a dignified way to die because they only have 6 months to live..if that...why not let them go the way they want to go? Why make them suffer...and their family/friends suffer along with them? Its inhumane. But..tell that to the catholics..who had a big say in this bill and are quite pleased with the overturning I'm betting.

Then again..who cares about a stupid law? Aim well. Or fly over a cliff in your car. Don't bother with pills..you might survive.

 

[Gracie]

A Riverside County judge’s ruling throwing out the state’s End of Life Option Act isn't about the rightness of the law, because it is the right law. It's about the session in which the measure passed.

That special legislative session in 2015 was about healthcare, and it's hard to imagine a topic more central to healthcare than choices regarding terminal disease. Nevertheless, Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia ruled Tuesday morning that the Legislature shouldn’t have acted on the physician-assisted suicide bill during the special session because, in his overly narrow view, the session was limited to finding more funding for Medi-Cal.

There's a chance for the state to appeal this within five days. It has a strong argument with which to do this. But if the state can't persuade Ottolia otherwise over the next several days, then perhaps a new law would be the quickest and strongest way to go.



Any legislators who had doubts about this law have had a chance to see the comfort it has brought to more than 100 terminally ill Californians since it went into effect two years ago.

Now that they have had this opportunity to make end-of-life decisions for themselves, Californians are unlikely to settle for less. Three-fourths of Californians support the assisted death law, a 2015 UC Berkeley survey found.

The Roman Catholic Church, a major force behind the lawsuit, would oppose the law no matter how it was passed or in what kind of session. But not all Californians adhere to the church's beliefs. They have their own rights.

Despite the fears of disability rights advocates, all signs point to the assisted death law being used sparingly, without coercion, by people who were grateful to have the option. If anything, the law's six-month provision has made it too difficult for some terminally ill people to have that choice about ending their lives peacefully.

California's right-to-die law dies in court

 

[there4eyeM]

It would seem that the personal choice to die would be protected by the first amendment. A religious prohibition of this would also seem to be excluded by the same amendment. We make choices about life and death all the time. It is somewhat disingenuous to approve bombing of civilians and then prohibit such choices as painless suicide. A person who runs knowingly into an enemy bunker to blow it and himself up so he could save his friends is called a hero, though he knew he would die. A person under this California law is sparing him/her self suffering with death as a certain outcome, anyway.
Causing a person to be born is essentially causing that person to die. Is that 'right' challenged?

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Judge Overturns California's Right-To-Die Law | HuffPost

Lovely. We treat our animals better than we do human beings that are suffering.
If someone wants a dignified way to die because they only have 6 months to live..if that...why not let them go the way they want to go? Why make them suffer...and their family/friends suffer along with them? Its inhumane. But..tell that to the catholics..who had a big say in this bill and are quite pleased with the overturning I'm betting.

Then again..who cares about a stupid law? Aim well. Or fly over a cliff in your car. Don't bother with pills..you might survive.

Just because a doctor says that a person only has six more months doesn't mean that the person is done once them six months are in the past. If that were true, that Valerie Harper lady never would've been on Dancing With The Stars.

God bless you and her always!!!

Holly

P.S. Yes, she is still here after being diagnosed with cancer nine years ago.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Now maybe doctors will stop hammering and berating patients into choosing to die.

The law, if it ever was a good idea, has been abused everywhere it has passed.

 

[Preacher]

Judge Overturns California's Right-To-Die Law | HuffPost

Lovely. We treat our animals better than we do human beings that are suffering.
If someone wants a dignified way to die because they only have 6 months to live..if that...why not let them go the way they want to go? Why make them suffer...and their family/friends suffer along with them? Its inhumane. But..tell that to the catholics..who had a big say in this bill and are quite pleased with the overturning I'm betting.

Then again..who cares about a stupid law? Aim well. Or fly over a cliff in your car. Don't bother with pills..you might survive.

That's asinine. It should NOT be the governments business if you want to die voluntarily. Jeez.