Ernie Chambers D-NE bill would let doctors prescribe life-ending drugs to some terminally ill adults

[Omaha Steve]

This bill would most likely not apply to dementia patients like me because of several factors. And right to lifers etc will fight it. It won't pass.

OS

http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/chambers-puts-forth-end-of-life-measure/article_7f328091-8545-5c6d-b26b-0c8d72b380a0.html

Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2016 1:00 am | Updated: 9:15 am, Thu Jan 21, 2016.
By Martha Stoddard / World-Herald Bureau

LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers will have a chance this year to decide whether doctors should be able to prescribe life-ending drugs for adults with less than six months to live.

State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha introduced Legislative Bill 1056, the “Patient Choice at End of Life Act,” on Wednesday.

It was among 338 new bills and five proposed constitutional amendments tossed into the legislative hopper this year.

The total is the lowest since 1971, when Nebraska lawmakers started meeting annually.

FULL story at link.

[whatthehey]

1. It won't pass but it should

We offer dogs more relief and dignity than ourselves when death is near.

I hope, but doubt, we will see this applied nationally in my lifetime. I have no desire to either live out my final weeks/months/years in torturous agony and utter uselessness, or inflict the shock of finding my shotgun-ravaged corpse on family or friends, but today's "enlightened" theo-babble driven superstitious America grants me no other option if I don't luck out into a sudden death.

[countryjake]

2. kickety