Initiative Measure No. 1000

The full text is here (pdf).

This is a basic death with dignity initiative, which would allow terminally ill patients, with a number of safeguards, to request and receive lethal prescriptions to allow them to end their lives.

I read through the entire text, and the statements for and against. I believe more than enough safeguards are present here and that this is a good change. Fundamentally, the choice to end one’s life should always be available to those who wish it. If I was in charge, I’d go even further and probably not even restrict it as much as it is restricted.

But this is good and reasonable, and if I am ever in that sort of situation, I would certainly want to have that sort of choice available to me. I’m not by any means sure what I would choose, but I certainly would not want the law to say that anybody helping me in that situation was a felon, which is what the law says today.

Thus, my vote is:

YES