Initiative-1000

We support initiative 1000 because it gives the right to people to decide their fate. For example, people with terminal illnesses would be able to help themselves get out of pain and suffering. “Nancy Niedzielski, who watched her husband, Randy, die a lingering painful death from brain cancer in 2006”. “He knew the ugliness his death was going to cause him, the pain and suffering, Niedzielski said”. She goes on to talk about how her husband became “uncharacteristic and angry” for the doctors would not help him hasten his death because the law would not allow them to. Her husband told her “They don’t have a right to tell me how long I have to suffer”. So while I show you this example, it shows why I-1000 should be passed and not only allowed in Oregon. With this law being passed there requirements, for example, you have to be expected to die in six months. Also, be free of depression and able to muster sound judgment. You must also request the prescription verbally and in writing, and again verbally after a 15 day waiting period. Then you also have to have two witnesses, one not being related or a working doctor at the facility. The doctor can decline the patient the medication at any time. They must have a second doctor’s opinion about the patient before they can prescribe the lethal dose.