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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It is done all the time... it is called morphene. Enough and you don't wake up
ReplyDeleteMorphine. And it's used to kill the pain as a patient dies naturally, not BECAUSE of the morphine.
ReplyDeleteRead up on Hospice, jerk.
I'm thankful Dad had the benefit of this when he elected hospice care last year.