End of Life: Legal and Policy Issues

If those who are dying are embraced by their family and their community, they will not seek death, but will live their last days well, and then accept death when it comes.

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Embracing Our Dying

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Physician – Assisted Suicide Bill Moves Forward
On Monday, SB 380 (Eggman – D, Stockton), the physician-assisted suicide expansion bill, passed out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee on a 6 – Yes, 2 – No, and 3 – Abstain vote.
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SB 380 Moves Out of Committee
Despite the large number of those who wrote to their lawmakers, the State Assembly Health Committee voted to pass SB 380, the bill intended to remove "safeguards" from the physician-assisted suicide law passed in 2015.

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