Colorado State House Committee Rejects Right to Die Legislation
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Nuran Kansu/iStock/Thinkstock(DENVER) — The Colorado state House Public Health Care & Human Services Committee rejected a bill that would have authorized patients with terminal illnesses to request and receive physician-assisted suicide.
A motion to postpone the bill indefinitely passed by a vote of nine to four, the State legislature’s website said.
The legislation specified that a physician would not have been allowed to “end an individual’s life by lethal injection, mercy killing, or active euthanasia,” but rather to “prescribe to the individual for self-administration by ingestion, life-ending medication. The bill would also have required the patient to be a Colorado resident, have a terminal illness, be capable of making health care decisions and voluntarily request the medication.
Patients further would have had to get two doctors to sign off on the request, which must have been made orally and in writing.
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