ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — The End of Life Options Act has failed in the Senate after a 23-23 vote.
The bill failed on the second read.
A tie in the vote allowed the bill to advance to the Full Senate Floor, which automatically kills a bill.
There were emotional testimonies for and against the bill in the Senate on Wednesday.
“This bill and this principle up-end what I would say is thousands of years of medical practice,” Senator Justin Ready said. “The Hippocratic Oath which is to first do no harm.”
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6 comments:
Nothing like the government telling you that you don't have a right to die with some dignity left.
When there is no hope for recovery, extending someone's misery and suffering unnecessarily is absolutely doing great harm.
But the didn't hesitate to take the state benefits from retirees. That was a benefit to work for the state. All you young ones better beware.
There are many OTC meds that can cause a painless suicide. They'll put you to sleep, and that's that. The bill was a useless waste of legislative collateral. I guess the bill was to insure that anyone that wanted to die, but couldn't swallow the pills, could get a doctor to do the deed for them. And that's why it failed. There were those that opposed a family helping someone to kill their self with a doctor's help. That is euthanasia, just with a different name. If you are still capable of making the decision to kill yourself, you don't need a law legalizing it. Suicide is already illegal, but people do it every day, my father included. He didn't need any bill to allow him to do it. And who are they going to charge with killing their self? That's right, nobody. Can't charge the dead with a crime. MD legislators are pathetic. Always looking to legislate where no legislation is necessary.
Hospice is a gift. More people should use it.
March 28, 2019 at 2:28 PM:
Hospice will give you enough meds (morphine) to kill any pain that one has from dying. Enough morphine, and it will stop you from breathing (overdose). They do it all the time. God Bless hospice and the work that they do.
For my mother, the hospital administered the meds that made her stop breathing. I wondered why they gave her morphine when she was in a irreversible coma, and was removed from life support. Now I realize it was to help my mom transition from life to death, without fighting and gasping for every breath. Without the morphine she would have eventually suffocated on her own. I never second guessed the hospital for what they did. My mom died as peacefully as could be under the circumstances. Dying with dignity already is readily available. It is just not advertised, because there are those that would try to deny it to patients, and try to hold the ones that make it possible liable for their actions.
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