Terminally ill patients in California currently only have a few life-ending options, says Coombs Lee, and they’re less than humane. If a person’s pain becomes intolerable, they have the option to ask their physician to sedate them to unconsciousness and then withhold food and water until they die. “That can take days,” says Coombs Lee, adding that some people have simply stopped eating and drinking without sedation. And, of course, she says, “violent options are available.”
O’Donnell refuses to go that route. “I’m not going to be a lawbreaker at the end of my life and then have the police come into my home and interrogate my family because it’s part of what they’re required to do when they investigate a suicide under the penal code,” she tells Couric. “I would never do that to my family.”
O’Donnell says it’s important that people know that she’s not suicidal: “I don’t want to die … I would do anything to live.”
A preliminary motions hearing for O’Donnell’s suit will be held on July 24, her birthday.
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About Me
- Simply Jim
- Hearing impaired (tendency to appear dumb, dense, and/or aloof), orthodox atheist (believe faith more harmful than doubt), self depreciating sense of humor (confident/not to be confused with low self esteem), ribald sense of humor (satorical/mocking when sensing Condescension), confirmed bachelor (my fate if not my choosing), freakish inclination (unpredictable non-traditionalist opinions), free spirit (nor conformist bohemian) Believe others have said it better...... "Jim! You can be SO SMART, but you can be SO DUMB!" "Jim! You make such a MARTYR of yourself." "He's a nice guy, but...." "You must be from up NORTH!" "You're such a DICK!" "You CRAZY!" "Where the HELL you from?" "Don't QUITE know how to take your personality." My favorite, "You have this... NEED... to be....HONEST!"
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