New Jersey may become the third state to legalize physician-assisted suicide after a state lawmaker proposed a bill to grant doctors the right to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reported.
Known as the Death With Dignity Act, the bill would allow a “qualified patient to self-administer medication to end life in a humane and dignified matter.” The bill was introduced this week by Assemblyman John Burzichelli (D-Gloucester), according to the Star-Ledger.
Under current New Jersey law, it is considered a crime to purposely help another person commit suicide. But if the bill is approved, an individual with six months or less to live would need to make two verbal requests and one written request – with two witnesses for the written request – to receive a lethal dose of medication.
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