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Letter: Retired nurses support passages of Massachusetts Death with Dignity bill
Telegram & Gazette
As retired nurses, we fervently support the passage of the Massachusetts Death with Dignity bill.
We have witnessed terminally ill patients suffer with extreme pain waiting until their next pain medication is due or so medicated that they cannot speak
The Death with Dignity bill is a compassionate option of a legally prescribed patient-administered medication for those who are terminally ill, mentally capable of making their own healthcare decisions and facing severe pain and suffering.
Nine states, including Maine, Vermont, New Jersey plus Washington, D.C., have passed similar bills. Seventy percent of Massachusetts citizens support the bill according to a Boston Globe/Suffolk University 2020 Poll. The Globe editorial on Dec. 6 called for passage of this bill.
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Beacon Hill Roll Call
THE HOUSE AND SENATE
Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on a roll call from the week of Jan. 25-29. There were no roll calls in the Senate last week.
CLIMATE CHANGE (S 9)
House 144-14, Senate on a voice vote without a roll call, approved and sent to Gov. Charlie Baker a 57-page climate change bill. A key section makes the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal net zero by 2050.
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Mike Barrett (D-Cambridge) and Rep. Thomas Golden (D-Lowell) who led the successful charge for legislative approval of the legislation for several months in 2020. An identical measure had passed the House 145-9 and the Senate 38-2 in 2020 - margins that were large enough for the Legislature to easily override any gubernatorial veto. But it was too late for that. The 2020 Legislature ended on January 5 and under legislative rules, any vetoe
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