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Bill: Assisted Suicide
Details
Submitted by[?]: Selucian Home and Hearth
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2814
Description[?]:
| To use this law, a patient must: - be a legal adult (currently 18 years of age or older) - be a Selucian citizen - be able to make and communicate their own health care decisions - be diagnosed with a terminal illness with six months or less to live - make two verbal requests, separated by 15 days, to a physician - make a written request to the attending physician, which request is witnessed by two individuals who are not primary care givers or family members The attending physician must decide whether these criteria have been met. The patient shall be allowed to rescind the verbal or written requests at any time. The law further requires that: - The attending physician must be licensed in Selucia. - The diagnosis of terminal illness with six months or less to live must be certified by a consulting physician, who must also certify that the patient is mentally competent to make and communicate health care decisions. - If either physician determines that the patient's judgment is impaired, the patient must be referred for a psychological examination. - The attending physician must inform the patient of alternatives, including palliative care, hospice and pain management options. - The attending physician must request that the patient notify their next-of-kin of the prescription request. - Physicians must report all lethal prescriptions to the Department of Health and Social Services. - Choice of legal physician-assisted dying in Selucia cannot affect the status of a patient's health or life insurance policies. - Physicians and health care systems are not obligated to participate in assisting suicide. - Health care systems cannot engage in discriminatory hiring practices against physicians on the basis of their conscientious refusal to assist suicide. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to euthanasia.
Old value:: Euthanasia is illegal and considered murder.
Current: Euthanasia is allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Proposed: Euthanasia is allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 500 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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