Posted on 11/05/2008 10:36:58 AM PST by pinkpanther111
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Voters approved Initiative 1000 on Tuesday, making Washington the second state to give terminally ill people the option of medically assisted suicide.
The ballot measure, patterned after Oregon's "Death with Dignity" law, allows a terminally ill person to be prescribed lethal medication, which would be self-administered.
With about 43 percent of the expected vote counted Tuesday in unofficial returns, I-1000 was being approved by a margin of about 58 percent to about 42 percent.
Supporters, led publicly by Democratic former Gov. Booth Gardner, said the initiative would provide a compassionate way for terminally ill people to die.
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You forgot the other difference, a patient chooses death but the baby doesn’t get a choice.
I lived there the first 17 years of my life..
...I hope I do not live there the last year of my life.
I just moved from a Blue State and here ya go taking my place in another!
Yes quite a buffet
There is a certain portion of the population in general who I hope takes advantage of this!
I am disgusted with this. Even in my conservative county in eastern WA, which voted heavily for McCain, this initiative was easily approved.
You're exactly right about that.
Seriously, what this election, and other recent life experiences have taught me: being a gentlman is a loser. Rudeness wins. In business, and in politics.
But both involve a physician getting blood on his/her hands too. Just like the pharmacists who will be forced to dispense abortifacients, MDs will also one day be forced to participate in this act of killing too.
Didn't they already do that when they elected Patrica Bin Murray to the U.S. Senate?
Here in Washington, Obama drew out so many Democrats, we passed the largest sales tax increase ever to pay for a light rail that few will ride. We became the 2nd state to allow Dr. assisted suicide, and we voted No on synchronizing traffic lights so we spend less time with cars at idle wasting gas. And the much hated Gov. Gegoire, who stole the election away from challenger Rossi in 2004 only after finding enough lost votes to pull ahead in the 3rd recount. She beet Rossi in the rematch by a big margin.
Word to the wise: When sick, do not lay down.
Well, if Boeing goes out of business they can always open up a Soylent Green factory.
Washington: the Death State.
A vote means nothing in the state of Washington. The State imposes it’s will upon the sheeple, and the sheeple accept it carte blanche. This is no longer America. It is Amerika!
“Assisted suicide” is NOTHING more than a repackaged version of euthanasia.
What a doctor is being asked to do here is to prescribe drugs that if taken as directed WILL ONLY result in the patient’s death. This is the doctor killing the patient. If a person has strep throat, the doctor will prescribe an antibiotic and if this is taken as directed, the strep throat will go away — we DO NOT call this “physician assisted” medical treatment.
Then they should denote it as sarcasm or come back and clarify. Because there have been a lot of posts on here over the years where a person has expressed this point and been totally serious.
they are going to need it..... it’s one of the only ways to avoid the Obama tax increases. (just be sure to died BEFORE Jan 20, 2009.)
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