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Health Care & Hospital Law

May 28, 2015

Take a closer look at physician-assisted suicide bill

Senate Bill 128 deserves a closer and more cold-eyed look than most seem to be giving it - a look that ought to be divorced from emotion and sad stories. By Dan Lawton


By Dan Lawton


Bob Lawton, my uncle, died in October 2006. He had mesothelioma, a rare type of cancer.
It attacked his lungs. During the last two months of his 80-year life, he endured
bad pain. At times, the only dosage of painkiller that dulled his pain was so high
that it made him unconscious or, when awake, unable to talk. I wasn't there when it
happened, but he begged one of his doctors for a let...

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