Come on up and book a room at Newhart's Bed and Breakfast!
No need to check out, Larry and the two Daryls will hook you up to the Kevorkian machine lickety-split!
Posted on 05/02/2023 1:16:14 PM PDT by george76
Vermont on Tuesday became the first state in the country to change its medically assisted suicide law to allow terminally ill people from out of state to take advantage of it to end their lives.
Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed the bill that removes the residency requirement for the decades-old law.
Last year in a court settlement, Oregon agreed to stop enforcing the residency requirement of its law allowing terminally ill people to receive lethal medication. It also agreed to ask the Legislature to remove it from the law.
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Patients routinely travel to other states to utilize the best healthcare options. There is no rational reason they shouldn’t be able to travel to another state to access medical aid in dying if the state they live in doesn’t offer it.
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Vermont is one of 10 states that allow medically assisted suicide. Critics of such laws say without the residency requirements states risk becoming assisted suicide tourism destinations.
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Lynda Bluestein, 75, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Diana Barnard, a physician from Middlebury, sued Vermont in federal court last summer, claiming its residency requirement violated the Constitution’s commerce, equal protection, and privileges and immunities clauses. Barnard specializes in hospice and palliative care and has patients from neighboring New York state, which, like Connecticut, doesn’t allow medically assisted suicide.
Bluestein said Tuesday that the change in Vermont means that so many other people in the Northeast can take advantage of the state’s law.
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Come to Vermont - we’ll kill you quick and clean!
We’ve become such a barbaric society, and most of us didn’t even notice.
Does “terminally ill” include those with politically undesirable opinions?
We can start with some of my weekend neighbors.
Kidding, I’m kidding, really, I am.
If I was still married to my ex I’d buy a bus ticket to Vermont for her mother.
Unfortunately yes if the commies get their way! May that never happen!
Come on up and book a room at Newhart's Bed and Breakfast!
No need to check out, Larry and the two Daryls will hook you up to the Kevorkian machine lickety-split!
I wonder what percentage of those who want to kill themselves are liberals.
The up side, as with trannie and homo sex being dead ends, is more likely we’ll lose more liberals.
Sad to say, but if someone is so determined to off themselves that they will travel to another state for help/approval doing it, there probably wasn’t a way to dissuade them in the 1st place-three people I knew well have taken themselves out in the last couple of years-the only common denominator was that all three were taking several psychotropic and antidepressant drugs-I don’t see that those drugs help anyone...
Dear Vermont, please allow ALL congress-critters to partake also. A good number of us wil volunteer to help administer the “remedy”.
I won’t vote for the law allowing termination of life in MA, but I’m grateful for the change in law in VT. I have a friend who has always intended to choose her end, for the 40 years I’ve known her, and I won’t worry now how she’ll make her choice. Rational adults should have the right to choose. My worry is of the slippery slope that will allow non-rational adults, or coerced adults, to be forced onto that slide. That’s why I won’t vote for it. I don’t trust administrations, and the last few years has just magnified my distrust.
Then let them do it under the radar, and outside of the law. We don't need to ensconce this practice into law as a "right." Otherwise, it will metastasize into another holocaust, as the "right" to kill oneself will ultimately become an OBLIGATION when the person in question cannot prove himself a net benefit to society. This line has already shifted, from initially being about people in horrific pain about to die anyway, to someone who is just chronically depressed and wants out of life. Check out Oregon as an example.
Allows out-of-staters to use assisted suicide law.
Gives them a room in illegals area?.
I totally agree with that-it is between that individual and God-no human should encourage or assist such a thing-if they do anything, it should be to try to discourage the person from suicide. It has been my experience that the person who has their mind set on taking themselves out does not tell others they are having suicidal ideation, ask for pills, guns etc because those are red flags to others who will try to keep that from happening-if they are talking about it, there is a good chance they can be redirected to life with prayer and psychotherapy-but don’t give them any drugs or guns...
The friend I work for is from rural Oregon-he just got back from visiting family there, and he says Portland is like Satan’s palace now-nobody is safe and there are homeless addicts everywhere...
Come to Vermont— we’ll kill you & sign you up to vote, too!
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