The Oregon and Washington Death with dignity Acts allow mentally competent, terminally ill adult state residents to voluntarily request and receive prescription medication to hasten their death. This is one of the many end-of-life care options available in Oregon and Washington.
Let's pass legislation to allow terminally ill adult residents in the state of Florida the same human freedom.
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Brooke TaylorIt doesn't take much intelligence to be able to figure out that, given the diagnosis of a terminal illness, a human being should be able to make the decision to pass with dignity rather than continue to suffer.
Sara LeHewAs an emergency room RN, I watch and hear too many people with terminal illnesses as they suffer unnecessarily and beg for us to ease their pain and end their life. It's heart wrenching. Especially since we treat animals with more respect by euthanizing them to end their suffering, yet give no consideration to our fellow human beings by empowering them with the CHOICE of dying with dignity.
Nina LaPianaThis is the most ethical movement I have seen out of humanity in my lifetime. It is wonderful.
1 week agoComments:
It doesn't take much intelligence to be able to figure out that, given the diagnosis of a terminal illness, a human being should be able to make the decision to pass with dignity rather than continue to suffer.
Sara LeHew
1 week agoComments:
As an emergency room RN, I watch and hear too many people with terminal illnesses as they suffer unnecessarily and beg for us to ease their pain and end their life. It's heart wrenching. Especially since we treat animals with more respect by euthanizing them to end their suffering, yet give no consideration to our fellow human beings by empowering them with the CHOICE of dying with dignity.
Nina LaPiana
2 weeks agoComments:
This is the most ethical movement I have seen out of humanity in my lifetime. It is wonderful.
Brooke Taylor1422009480January 23, 2015 5:38 AMIt doesn't take much intelligence to be able to figure out that, given the diagnosis of a terminal illness, a human being should be able to make the decision to pass with dignity rather than continue to suffer.
Sara LeHew1421999160January 23, 2015 2:46 AMAs an emergency room RN, I watch and hear too many people with terminal illnesses as they suffer unnecessarily and beg for us to ease their pain and end their life. It's heart wrenching. Especially since we treat animals with more respect by euthanizing them to end their suffering, yet give no consideration to our fellow human beings by empowering them with the CHOICE of dying with dignity.
Adam Charles Lewis1417062120November 26, 2014 11:22 PMI want Florida to pass a measure exactly like the one passed in New Jersey where the patients can choose the manor of death and the timing.
Jean downs1416907080November 25, 2014 4:18 AMI want to help getting this passed. I live in the villages. Over 100,000 of us are over 55 and waiting for someone to do something.
1 week agoComments:
It doesn't take much intelligence to be able to figure out that, given the diagnosis of a terminal illness, a human being should be able to make the decision to pass with dignity rather than continue to suffer.
Sara LeHew
1 week agoComments:
As an emergency room RN, I watch and hear too many people with terminal illnesses as they suffer unnecessarily and beg for us to ease their pain and end their life. It's heart wrenching. Especially since we treat animals with more respect by euthanizing them to end their suffering, yet give no consideration to our fellow human beings by empowering them with the CHOICE of dying with dignity.
Nina LaPiana
2 weeks agoComments:
This is the most ethical movement I have seen out of humanity in my lifetime. It is wonderful.
Tracy DeCarlo
2 weeks agoComments:
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Bob Roberts
1 month agoComments:
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Adam Charles Lewis
2 months agoComments:
I want Florida to pass a measure exactly like the one passed in New Jersey where the patients can choose the manor of death and the timing.
Jean downs
2 months agoComments:
I want to help getting this passed. I live in the villages. Over 100,000 of us are over 55 and waiting for someone to do something.
Jim Grant, United States
2 months agoComments:
In my case it was our father who suffered for 10 long years with Multiple system atrophy, formerly called Shy-Drager Syndrome, very similar to ALS and Lou Gehrig's disease. At the end, Dad was incapable of movement, or speech, or controlling any bodily functions. He literally watched his body die while being mentally aware of every decline. We had to hoist his body from bed to chair and chair to bed again with an electronic lift. He could only communicate in his advanced stage by blinking his eyes for yes or no, but that failed him also. I watched him die asking him to tell me what he wanted, but I could not even understand him when he was asking for help. We had to attend to discharging his bodily waste, clean and bathe him, and spoon feed him with baby food. Is this anyway to come to the end of your wonderful life? --Certainly our compassionate and so called intelligent political system must find a way for all citizens to have Dignity in Dying, not just three states.
