Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.
States that are currently debating the legalization of assisted suicide include: Arizona, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Nevada, New Mexico, and New York.
2021 is also the year that the assisted suicide lobby is trying to expand current assisted suicide laws. Assisted suicide expansion bills are being debated in California, Hawaii, Vermont and Washington State.
The media wants you to think that there is a tidal wave of support for assisted suicide. In 2020, 20 states debated assisted suicide bills. None of those bills passed. In the past few years, several states, including Arizona, Georgia, Idaho and Louisiana have tightened their laws against assisted suicide.
The assisted suicide lobby is trying to expand current assisted suicide laws by (among other changes) reducing or removing waiting periods, allowing people who are not doctors to approve or prescribe death, forcing medical professionals who oppose killing to refer patients to death, and allowing lethal drugs to be sent by courier or the mail rather than picked up with proper identification.
Some of the legalization bills are similar to the assisted suicide expansion bills, such as the New Mexico assisted suicide bill. The New Mexico bill also waives the requirement of a second assessor when the person requesting assisted suicide is enrolled in hospice.
The assisted suicide lobby doesn't want you to know the reality of assisted suicide.
The most recent data from Oregon indicates that in 2019 there were 188 reported assisted suicide deaths up from 178 in 2018. They don't want you to know that in 2019 there were 21 people who received lethal drugs and died, but they have no idea how they died and in 2018 there were 14 deaths with the same circumstance.
Similarly, in Washington State the 2018 data indicates that there were 203 reported assisted suicide deaths, up from 164 in 2017. They had no idea how 19 people who received lethal drugs died, which was up from 13 deaths in the same circumstance in 2017.
According to the reports, deaths deemed "unknown" means that they have no idea how they died. It is possible that some or all of the 67 deaths, (35 in Oregon and 32 in Washington state over two years) were unreported assisted suicide deaths. Remember, these people are being prescribed lethal controlled substances.
Does this sound like there is effective oversight of the law?
Another hidden reality of deaths by assisted suicide is how these people actually die.
An article by Lisa Krieger published by the Medical Xpress on September 8, 2020 stated:
A little-known secret, not publicized by advocates of aid-in-dying, was that while most deaths were speedy, others were very slow. Some patients lingered for six or nine hours; a few, more than three days. No one knew why, or what needed to change.
"The public thinks that you take a pill and you're done," said Dr. Gary Pasternak, chief medical officer of Mission Hospice in San Mateo. "But it's more complicated than that."
The (first) turned out to be too harsh, burning patients’ mouths and throats, causing some to scream in pain. The second drug mix, used 67 times, has led to deaths that stretched out hours in some patients — and up to 31 hours in one case.
The goal of the assisted suicide lobby is to find a cheaper effective way to kill. They are obviously not concerned about how these people die.
According to the data, the 2018 Washington State assisted suicide report indicates that of the 203 reported assisted suicide deaths, there were 8 reported complications in 2018, likely related to the new lethal drug cocktails while 62 deaths took more than 90 minutes with the time of death ranging from 7 minutes to 30 hours.
The 2019 Oregon assisted suicide report states that the time of death ranged from 1 minute to 47 hours but the report didn't indicate how many people died more than 90 minutes after taking the lethal drugs.
The 2019 Oregon assisted suicide report states that the time of death ranged from 1 minute to 47 hours but the report didn't indicate how many people died more than 90 minutes after taking the lethal drugs.
The assisted suicide lobby is trying to expand current assisted suicide laws while legalizing assisted suicide in more states, while refusing to come clean with the facts about how people die by assisted suicide.
Assisted suicide is not a death with dignity. These deaths can be painful and may lead to many hours of dying, not minutes.
It is God Who decides when you should die. "God giveth and taketh!"
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