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Governor Jerry Brown signed bill to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives amid strong opposition from disability advocates and religious groups

California will become the fifth state to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives using doctor-prescribed drugs after Governor Jerry Brown announced Monday he signed one of the most emotionally charged bills of the year.

Brown, a lifelong Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian, announced he signed the legislation after thoroughly considering all opinions and discussing the issue with many people, including a Catholic bishop and two of Brown’s doctors.

“In the end, I was left to reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death,” the governor wrote in a signing statement that accompanied his signature on the legislation. “I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill.

He added he wouldn’t deny that right to others.

Until now, Brown had declined to comment on the issue.

State lawmakers approved the bill on 11 September. A previous version failed this year despite the highly publicized case of 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, a California woman with brain cancer who moved to Oregon to end her life.

Opponents said the bill legalizes premature suicide, but supporters called that comparison inappropriate because it applies to mentally sound, terminally ill people and not those who are depressed or impaired.

Religious groups and advocates for people with disabilities opposed the bill and nearly identical legislation that had stalled in the legislature weeks earlier, saying it goes against the will of God and put terminally ill patients at risk for coerced death.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/05/california-assisted-dying-legal-fifth-state

zenitzz, how do you feel about this news? Are you for this legislation? Are you against this legislation? Why?

I'd like to get some discussion or debate going rather then just copy and pasting the news on the forum here.

Nope.  I am all for letting people end their lives anytime they want.  Who are YOU to tell ME that I must endure pain for years?

Same, the idea that these people want to force people to stay alive just so they can feel good about themselves morally is really selfish and arrogant.

I am in full agreement with you all. insane :).

why?

1)Possum577

exactly! I comment that it's just to lvl up his account. 0 value.

2)Vod

exactly! lick your boobs my brother:), as long as you don't pee on yourself :D. my comment is that they think to be the represent of God on Earth and know the Will of God. more kufar I don't know.

3)Lethn

exactly! I would add that there is more opportunity for money extraction with prolonging life... at the last days the cost goes up exponentially. knowing how the kuffars of this world extract money it's a perfect scheme using "good will" of the muppet.

personally: if you can make girls pee on themselves, their is a risk of manipulation, for further exploitation... what is suffering? what is too much suffering? what is life? why shall I care about what other do with their lives? If you don't own your life, owning include the right to destroy... what's left. Why shall I care?

I think euthanasia is a human right.

Your life and what you choose to do with it is a human right.

Obviously, fitting into society means you can't just go and do whatever you please, but the choice of ending your life when all you have to look forward to is further pain should be an option that you alone have the right to choose.