Hospice AND medical aid in dying should be available to all Americans
I am responding to Rev. Daniel Warriner’s opinion piece, “Physician-aided death is not health care.” He starts by saying “As someone who works within a healthcare setting, I would like to know who in our hospitals is asking for this…….I don’t hear anyone in the hospital asking for this bill…”
Could people be afraid to mention it to Rev. Warriner because they know his position? For decades people from all walks of life across our country have asked for assistance ending their lives in humane fashion when they have refractory suffering from a terminal condition. That is why multiple states, representing more than a quarter of the U.S. population have passed medical aid in dying (MAID) laws. These laws allow terminally ill patients to request medications from their physicians to keep in their homes, to use if and when they decide to end their suffering. There are decades of experience in other