Major Battle Over Assisted Suicide Brewing In Mass

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WBUR.ORG
By Carey Goldberg
December 5, 2011

Major Battle Over Assisted Suicide Brewing In Mass

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Mark my words: There’s a great big battle brewing in Massachusetts over helping terminally ill patients commit suicide.

That’s not an original thought; in fact, a post last month on the New Old Age blog at nytimes.com was headlined “The Next Death-With-Dignity Battleground” and described energetic efforts to put the issue on next year’s Massachusetts ballot.

But the signs are multiplying that the battle is indeed on its way. The group behind the ballot initiative, Dignity 2012, gathered nearly 80,000 residents’ signatures, which seems to be a comfortable margin over the 70,000 or so needed to put a measure on the ballot. And this weekend, delegates at a major meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society voted to reaffirm their opposition to physician-assisted suicide, according to a society press release.
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http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2011/12/death-dignity-battle-massachusetts/

I know this article is a bit older but I was unaware of this upcoming battle. You?