Conn. woman 1st non-Vermonter granted assisted suicide right

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By LISA RATHKE an hour ago

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Lynda Bluestein has terminal cancer and knows she’ll likely die soon, but until Tuesday, she didn’t know if she’d be able to choose how or when and whether her family, friends and dog would be with her when the time comes.

The 75-year-old from Bridgeport, Connecticut, reached a settlement with the state of Vermont that will allow her to be the first non-resident to take advantage of its decade-old law that allows people who are terminally ill to end their own lives, provided she complies with other aspects of the law.

“I was so relieved to hear of the settlement of my case that will allow me to decide when cancer has taken all from me that I can bear,” said Bluestein, 75, who has fallopian tube cancer. “The importance of the peace of mind knowing that I will now face fewer obstacles in accessing the autonomy, control, and choice in this private, sacred and very personal decision about the end of my life is enormous.”

Vermont is one of 10 states that allow medically assisted suicide, but only one, Oregon, allows non-residents to do it. Bluestein’s settlement and pending legislation that would remove Vermont’s residency requirement offer a ray of hope to other terminally ill patients who want to control how and when they die but might not be able to cross the country to do so.


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/assisted-suicide-medical-aid-dying-vermont-bluestein-dfad23161758acf8a7aed2b20dea30ac

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Good video from link: https://apnews.com/e9945008a28a417a9d90a0ee05e67d2b

[walkingman]

1. This will never be allowed in Texas - too many religious nuts and I mean nuts.

[Chainfire]

2. And the same religious nuts will support the death penalty for Texans.

[Backseat Driver]

3. It was my understanding that VSED is legal in all states

if one's paperwork document ducks are all in a row. Those documents are often far easier in terms of being in "sound mind and body" than creating a one's LW&T and/or codicils thereto.

https://compassionandchoices.org/our-issues/vsed

[twodogsbarking]

4. Letting dying people starve to death is not humane.

Be reasonable.

[brooklynite]

5. What does starving have to do with this story?

[twodogsbarking]

6. Dying people can't eat. Rather than end the misery humanely

they lay there until they starve to death. Seemed obvious.

[brooklynite]

7. "Dying people can't eat" is an extremely generic statement with no evidence that its applicable here

My FIL utilized assisted suicide some years ago. His ability to eat was never an issue.

[twodogsbarking]

8. Well ok then.

[Delphinus]

9. Her words

resonate with me so much. May her death be gentle and peaceful at a time she chooses.