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On Tuesday, Vermont became the first state in the nation to alter its physician-assisted suicide law to allow non-residents<\/em> to come to the state to die by assisted suicide.<\/p>\n

Gov. Phil Scott signed<\/a> a bill into law that removes the residency requirement that was included in the original assisted suicide law. The bill was approved after the state agreed to allow a Connecticut woman<\/a> with cancer to travel to Vermont to die. While Oregon has stopped enforcing its residency requirement for assisted death, the legislature has not officially removed it from the state law.<\/p>\n

Mary Hahn Beerworth, executive director of the Vermont Right to Life Committee, testified before a legislative committee in March, saying that physician-assisted death \u201cwas, and remains, a matter of contention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear, Vermont Right to Life opposed the underlying concept behind assisted suicide and opposes the move to remove the residency requirement as there are still no safeguards that protect vulnerable patients from coercion,\u201d said Beerworth. According to AP News, she has concerns including what liability Vermont could incur if the drugs failed to end a patient\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

While assisted suicide advocates in the state claim the law has many safeguards, it has become clear that such laws often begin with regulations, but eventually, those rules are relaxed over time to allow virtually anyone to request and be approved for doctor-induced death. In Canada, individuals with non-life-threatening disabilities<\/a>\u00a0have been pressured<\/a> to die and the nation is considering allowing individuals with a mental health<\/a> diagnosis<\/a> to access assisted death. In the Netherlands, a legal loophole<\/a> could allow children of all ages to be killed.<\/p>\n

Kim Callinan, president and CEO of Compassion & Choices, a nonprofit pro-euthanasia advocacy organization, said, \u201cWe are grateful to Vermont lawmakers for recognizing that a state border shouldn\u2019t determine if you die peacefully or in agony.” However, there is evidence that death by assisted suicide is not at all peaceful.<\/p>\n

Dr. Joel Zivot, an associate professor of anesthesiology and surgery at the Emory School of Medicine, is\u00a0considered an expert<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cphysician participation in lethal injection.\u201d He campaigns against the use of lethal injection for executions in the United States due to the suffering it causes. In\u00a0an op-ed<\/a>\u00a0for The Spectator, Zivot points out that assisted suicide actually brings about a painful \u2014 not painless \u2014 death.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe death penalty is not the same as assisted dying, of course. Executions are meant to be punishment; euthanasia is about relief from suffering,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cYet for both euthanasia and executions, paralytic drugs are used. These drugs, given in high enough doses, mean that a patient cannot move a muscle, cannot express any outward or visible sign of pain. But that doesn\u2019t mean that he or she is free from suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zivot referred to the case of Marcus Wellons, who was executed using the same drugs frequently used in assisted suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWellons\u2019 autopsy revealed that his lungs were profoundly congested with fluid, meaning they were around twice the normal weight of healthy lungs,\u201d he said. \u201cHe had suffered what is known as pulmonary edema, which could only have occurred as he lay dying. Wellons had drowned in his secretions. Yet even my medical eye detected no sign of distress at his execution.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, research has shown that painful and prolonged<\/a> death from assisted suicide and euthanasia are not rare. A third of patients will take 30 hours<\/strong><\/em> to die, according to a study in the journal Anaesthesia<\/a>, while a small number took seven days<\/strong><\/em> to die.<\/p>\n

Zivot concluded,\u00a0\u201cAdvocates of assisted dying owe a duty to the public to be truthful about the details of killing and dying. People who want to die deserve to know that they may end up drowning, not just falling asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, Vermont became the first state in the nation to alter its physician-assisted suicide law to allow non-residents to come to the state to die by assisted suicide. Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill into law that removes the residency requirement that was included in the original assisted suicide law. 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