"I am not a complete libertarian," says DC Council member Mary Cheh, who submitted the Death With Dignity legislation. The DC law, which passed the council by a vote of 11 to 2, does not allow physicians or others to directly administer lethal measures (euthanasia). "I want to be remembered as 'Teeny full of life,' not 'Teeny the cancer patient,'" she told my sister Quinny. I read up on the Death With Dignity Act, which had been in effect for more than a year. Grube explains that the DC Death With Dignity law is simply going through the same problems similar measures in other states have encountered when they first took effect: "I believe that DC has the normal experience.

Source: Stuff December 19, 2019 21:22 UTC