Monday, October 5, 2015

Cal. Grants Terminally Ill the Right to End Lives; Gov. Brown Signed End of Life Option Act Today

Granting terminally ill patients the right to end their lives with a doctor's help, California Governor Jerry Brown today (October 5, 2015) signed the End of Life Option Act, the San Jose Mercury News website reports.

The new law -- which goes into effect in 2016 -- allows physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to Californians diagnosed as having less than six months to live.

Brown -- a former Jesuit seminarian -- said, "In the end, I was left to reflect on what I want in the face of my own death." All the major Christian branches -- including Roman Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, and Protestantism -- are opposed to assisted dying.

California joins five other states in which aid in dying is legal: Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Montana, and New Mexico.


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