Physician aid in dying is really controversial. I think every state in the US has, at some point, investigated it and most of them, usually it’s vote it down. They all go to ballots where the voters have a chance to express their opinion by saying yay or nay, and there’s really a concern that this will somehow get out of control and become euthanasia; that people will be killed or aided in death against their will...
Physician aid in dying is really controversial. I think every state in the US has, at some point, investigated it and most of them, usually it’s vote it down. They all go to ballots where the voters have a chance to express their opinion by saying yay or nay, and there’s really a concern that this will somehow get out of control and become euthanasia; that people will be killed or aided in death against their will.
And that certainly hasn’t, in the 20 years in Oregon, that hasn’t been true and I think it probably speaks to that experience that in the last several years, we’re seeing an increase in the number of other states that are allowing that level autonomy to those people that live there. So I think it’ll probably spread, I don’t know if it’ll become to a point where they allow others to administer the medications as they as they do in some European countries, but I think it’s an ongoing expansion of the Democratic part of the process that is the US.
