Colorado rejects right-to-die legislation
Source: Associated Press
Colorado rejects right-to-die legislation
By IVAN MORENO, Associated Press | February 6, 2015 | Updated: February 6, 2015 11:07pm
DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers rejected a proposal to give dying patients the option to seek doctors' help ending their lives, concluding a long day of emotional testimony from more than 100 people.
For one lawmaker who voted no, the issue was personal. Tearfully telling her colleagues she was a cancer survivor, Democratic Rep. Dianne Primavera recalled how a doctor told her she wouldn't live more than five years.
But she found a doctor who gave her a different opinion.
"And he took me in his care, and I am here today 28 years later," she said.
Doctors who opposed the measure told lawmakers earlier that allowing dying patients to seek life-ending medications from a physician closed off the possibility of a recovery when a prognosis can sometimes be wrong.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/medical/article/Colorado-right-to-die-bill-gets-first-public-6066890.php
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I have no patience for people who consider themselves the deciders .
...you can no more legislate dying than you can legislate loving.
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