Posted on 08/30/2019 8:33:16 PM PDT by marshmallow
New Jersey can move ahead with a new law allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending drugs, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday, overturning a lower court's temporary hold on the law.
Judges Carmen Messano and Arnold Natali ruled Tuesday that a state Superior Court "abused its discretion" in blocking the law earlier this month.
"We conclude the court failed to consider adequately the interests of qualified terminally-ill patients, who the Legislature determined have clearly prescribed rights to end their lives consistent with the Act," the appeals court wrote in its opinion.
Rich Grohmann, an attorney for Dr. Yosef Glassman who brought the lawsuit, says they're appealing to the state Supreme Court.
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If it’s democrats, I’ll help.
I’m with ya, dude. I hope they have enough people off themselves there in NJ that the state loses at least TWO House seats after the 2020 census, not just one.
It’s generally more likely that dems would off themselves as Rs would tend to be more religious.
Trust me it crossed my mind at the worst of the pain after i got hurt.
But our kind knows we answer to a higher power and it wasn’t my choice to make or my life to take.
And of course the vast majority of the pain went away over the years. Would have been a major waste!!
And trust me, it starts with the terminally ill then it becomes the elderly then those in too much pain and then those who are depressed and then there’s mobile vans like on some countries in W europe that drive around to kill people.
The good doctor and his lawyer have filed an appeal to the NJ state Supreme Court.
Good luck, Dr. Glassman!
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death.
If you have assistance than is it really suicide?
I personally don’t think a physician should be forced to provide life-ending medications against their will. That just isn’t right.
I do, however, support the decision of a psychologically healthy adult with a terminal illness to end their life, and NJ provides a lot of backstops in order to allow the patient ample time to weigh that decision. It’s also good that the physician isn’t forced to administer the drug, so all culpability is on the patient.
I also think that it needs to be treated as a DNR and decided upon before an illness takes place or becomes too severe, but with a back-out option available to the patient alone, like putting a hold on your credit to prevent further loans. Once a hold is on the order to end life, the order needs to be reinstated verbally and written.
That’s just my two cents, though. Having gone through a catastrophic illness and incredible pain, I understand the desire.
Can Hillary be somewhere nearby? You mean like two taps in the back of the head?
Think of all the sudden assisted suicides that could go on.
Agreed as far as a DNR situation goes. I just suspect that there will be a remarkable amount of assisted suicides soon.
That statement is loaded with highly subjective terms that will ultimately provide little or no protection for people. It will also open a huge fan of worms when it comes to people who are NOT doctors making credible claims to have the same legal protection for killing other people through their own “assisted suicide” processes.
I am not a fan of worms. LOL.
Satan’s blade of compassion...
Many years ago, I had the same opinion, but I changed my mind thanks to personal experience later. It was then that I found out what happens when doctors decide a patient is terminally ill: many doctors start treating that patient as a waste of time and resources. Sometimes the doctors and nurses say terrible things to those patients in an effort to convince them to give up, stop treatment, and check into hospice.
Now, with this assisted-suicide law, patients, weakened from illness, eventually will be pushed into assisted suicide. Even worse, sometimes medical records are wrong, and a patient isn't really terminally ill.
This law is a disaster, and so is this governor who signed it.
How hard is it to go to a doctor, get a bottle of lunesta and take it all? Why involve others in “assisted” suicide? Hell. A bottle of aspirin will do it.
“Arnold Natali”
Natali translated is Christmas in Italian. Just seems ironic to me that “Natali” representing the birth of Jesus is involved with assisted suicide. Just sayin.
In NJ, nobody commits “suicide” alone.
From what I have read they have to take the cocktail themselves. The state supplies the drugs to do it.
No, it’s an accessory to murder.
I prefer President Trump’s law, Right to Try.
Abortion of the elderly. It’s just a shot away.
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