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31 Dec 2009 17:05

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U.S.: Montana Supreme Court: Jack Kevorkian should move here

  • We find nothing in Montana Supreme Court precedent or Montana statutes indicating that physician aid in dying is against public policy.
  • A decision by the Montana Supreme Court • Regarding the fate of Robert Baxter, who wanted to die with a doctor’s aid. He later died on his own. In other words, assisted suicide is now legal in middle-of-nowhere Montana. Montana: It’s where people go to die (with a doctor’s help). source
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31 Aug 2009 21:42

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U.S.: Montana’s in the center of a right-to-die legal storm

  • There are moral arguments, philosophical arguments on both sides, bioethical arguments on both sides, even medical and public health arguments on both sides.
  • Montana State Solicitor Anthony Johnstone • On the coming court case based around Robert Baxter, a 76-year-old truck driver with lymphocytic leukemia whose request for a lethal injection was refused by his doctor. (Baxter died last year.) Montana’s an interesting state for a case like this to take place: Their constitution leans libertarian, and personal rights court cases in the state have shown a history of later being replicated by the Supreme Court. In his miserable, protracted death, Baxter may just produce a better end of life for thousands of Montana residents. • source
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