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When a patient in an intensive care unit is too sick to communicate, it is often the family that must make critical decisions about the patient’s care.
This may mean deciding with the medical team whether to proceed with a difficult operation, for example, or to withdraw life support.
This a situation that many of us are [...]

Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer features two op-ed piece taking opposing sides on Initiative 1000.
If passed, the measure, which is on this Nov. 4 ballot, would allow physicians to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill adults who wish to take their own lives.
Aida Kouyoumjian and Dr John H. Lindberg collaborated in a [...]

Former Washington State Governor John Spellman disagrees with two other former Washington governors, Booth Gardner and Daniel Evans, on Initiative 1000, the measure on this November’s ballot that would allow physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medications to terminally ill adults who wish to end their own lives.
In an op-ed piece in the Seattle [...]

Both Seattle papers today have run features on Initiative 1000, the November ballot measure that would allow terminally ill adults who wish to end their own lives to obtain lethal prescriptions from physicians.
One article looks at the role religious groups are playing in the Washington debate; the other at the impact a similar “Death with [...]

Two op-ed writers take opposite stands on Initiative 1000, the Death with Dignity Act, which will be before voters this November.
Joyce Mulliken, a former Republican state senator from Moses Lake, argues that Initiative 1000, if passed, would “redefine suicide and elevate it into an alternative medical ‘treatment’.”
“For the vulnerable, depressed and weak, being presented with [...]

In a study that will likely be cited by both sides in the debate over Initiative 1000, the Death with Dignity Act, which is on this November’s ballot in Washington State, researchers found that most Oregonians asking for lethal prescriptions to end their lives under Oregon’s 1994 law that allows physician-assisted suicide are not depressed.
But [...]

The Seattle Times has run a two-article series on the debate over Initiative 1000, which, if passed by voters this Nov. 4, will allow doctors to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication to competent adults with a terminal illnesses so they can end their lives if they wish.
In an article in the paper’s [...]