Cassa Sutherland News Today

Recently passed legislation lowers barriers to access Washington state's Death with Dignity Act.

Organ donor recipients and their families will join Gov. Janet Mills at the State House today to highlight Organ Donation Month in Maine. Advocates of organ donation say more than 1,300 lives were saved in New England last year because of individuals who registered as organ donors at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. ...

Recently passed legislation lowers barriers to access Washington states Death with Dignity Act. The original law was passed by voters in 2008. Cassa Sutherland, client services manager for the group End of Life Washington, said the medical aid-in-dying law was in need of modernization so more people who wanted to participate could. ...

Presentation of options, planning, legal concerns

Passed as an initiative and signed into law in the fall of 2008, Washington state’s Death With Dignity Act allows terminally ill adults seeking to end their life to request lethal doses of medication from medical and osteopathic physicians.

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