Death with Dignity Acts

From the fundamental view that the law of death and dignity, also known as aid to death and death by doctors, is a person of a terminal illness rather than government and its interventions, politicians and their ideologies, or religion . Leaders and their doctrines to decide to die and to decide how much pain and suffering to endure

Death by dignity regulation spontaneously competent adult state residents who eventually have a prognosis within 6 months of illness voluntarily request prescription drugs to accelerate their inevitable death , To receive it. By adding voluntary options to the continuity of terminal care, these laws provide patients with dignity, control and security on the last day of patients and their families. Protective measures of the bill will ensure that patients remain the driving force for hospice care consultations.

Existing doctor-assisted death law reflects Oregon's dignity death method that has been widely regarded as successful, and its independent research prove protection measures to protect patients and prevent misuse . The process of dignity and death is powerful: the two doctors have to confirm the patient's place of residence, diagnosis, prognosis, spiritual ability and the voluntary nature of the request. Two waiting periods are required. One is during verbal request and the other is between receipt and filling in prescription.

Regulation to protect doctors from death is not currently in Montana State. In 2009, the Montana State Supreme Court prohibits demands for end-of-life and psychiatric patients, as state law prohibits doctors from taking medication to speed up patient death. Since the judgment, several bills have been introduced to codify or ban this practice, but none of these bills has passed.

People are often disappointed that Washington's "dignity death law" and similar state laws in other states do not help people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Our dignity death law demands people to mentally choose to hasten death and by definition most people with severe progressive dementia are based on adequate information about this problem I can not make a reasonable decision. In addition, dementia is not a type of medical condition that leads to a prognosis of less than 6 months - the physical and mental deterioration of dementia gradually worsens over the years, and death is usually caused by different medical conditions .

By Colorado State, Hawaii State, California State (California End of Life Selection Act), Oregon State (by the Oregon State of Death and Dignity Act), Washington (Washington State Death and Dignity Act), Vermont State (Patient Selection) Management and management of the statutory life end invoice to support death. In Montana State (through the Court of Judgment Baxter vs. Montana State in 2009), the court could not find a public policy prohibiting suicide, so it can be argued as a defense in court. Oregon State and Washington State regulate some restrictions since 2014. It is temporarily legal in New Mexico but this ruling was overturned in 2015.

Oregon's death and dignity law (hereinafter "the law of dignity") was adopted in 1994 through the advocacy process. Since then the opponents of the Law of Dignity have overturned the law. First of all, they asked the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA") to act on Oregon doctors who violated the "Regulated Substance Act" ("CSA") in violation of the law seeking federal remedies I urged. Originally, the DEA believed that its agent could cancel the registration of a doctor who helped accelerate death under the dignity law. However, US Attorney General Jenn Trino rejected this position and concluded that CSA did not achieve this behavior. Opponents then tried to modify the CSA in two consecutive parliaments to expand its scope to achieve dignity