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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

NM Judge: Doctors Can Give Meds For Aid In Dying

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Competent, terminally ill patients have a fundament right under the New Mexico Constitution to seek a physician's help in getting prescription medications if they want to end their lives on their own terms, a state district judge ruled Monday.

Second Judicial District Judge Nan Nash said the constitution prohibits the state from depriving a person of life, liberty or property without due process.

"This court cannot envision a right more fundamental, more private or more integral to the liberty, safety and happiness of a New Mexican than the right of a competent, terminally ill patient to choose aid in dying," Nash wrote.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is done all the time... it is called morphene. Enough and you don't wake up

Anonymous said...

Morphine. And it's used to kill the pain as a patient dies naturally, not BECAUSE of the morphine.
Read up on Hospice, jerk.

I'm thankful Dad had the benefit of this when he elected hospice care last year.