Maine legalizes medically assisted suicide, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with prescribed medication.
Maine legalized medically assisted suicide on Wednesday, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with prescribed medication.
Maine's measure will allow doctors to prescribe a fatal dose of medication to terminally ill people. It declares that obtaining or administering life-ending medication is not suicide under state law, thereby legalizing the practice often called medically assisted suicide. "This is what she wanted," said Fowler, an educational consultant in Gardiner."And now everybody has the option that she didn't have."
Supporters, including Democrats and a small group of Republicans who say the legislation is in line with the rugged state's tradition of individualism, say the terminally ill should have the right to choose how their lives end. "Do you think the insurance companies will do the right thing or the cheap thing?" said Teresa McCann-Tumidajski, executive director of the Maine Right to Life Committee."The so-called safeguards are there for the physicians, insurance carriers and lawyers. Not the patient."
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