Two state bills would allow terminally ill patients in Pennsylvania to end their own lives

PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE: It’s not suicide.

That’s the stance of two Pennsylvanian legislators who recently entered bills into the state House and Senate proposing a law similar to Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, which permits terminally ill adult Oregonians to obtain from their doctor and self-administer a lethal dose of medication…

“Assisted-suicide, or whatever they would call it, is intentionally killing yourself or helping someone else and is immoral,” [Amy Hill of the public affairs arm of state’s Catholic bishops and dioceses] said. “Life is worth something at every stage.”… (more)

EDITOR: Let’s have this discussion. It is long overdue.

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