Law Practice
Oct. 9, 2007
With Bill Shelved, Right-to-Die Group Shifts Focus to Advice
After two years of unsuccessful lobbying for a euthanasia law in California, a group called Compassion & Choices has decided to focus on advising terminally ill patients how to kill themselves. San Francisco lawyer Wesley Smith, who writes a blog on assisted suicide, says giving such advice to terminally ill patents could open the door to lawsuits by family members.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - After two years of unsuccessful lobbying for a euthanasia law in California, a group called Compassion & Choices has decided to focus on advising terminally ill patients how to kill themselves.
The group, based in Oregon where there is a right-to-die law, insists that it has not given up on the larger goal of getting si...
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