Legislature the place change assisted suicide law, not courts, says judge in Connecticut
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Jun 10th, 2010
In Connecticut, a Superior Court judge has rejected a request from two doctors who sought to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill, mentally competent patients who asked for help to die peacefully. In dismissing the doctors’ case, Judge Julia Aurigemma wrote that a state law against assisting suicide applied to physicians helping dying patients end […]
