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Oppose SB 88 - Improve End-of-Life Care Instead

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I encourage you to vote against SB 88, "An Act Concerning Aid in Dying for Terminally Ill Patients". Instead, please work to improve end-of-life care, such as nursing homes, hospice care and palliative care. These services respect human life and when done correctly reflect true compassion.
  Fear of impending loss of autonomy, not suffering in pain, is the main reason people report the use of assisted suicide in other states. Stand with caring for lives, not ending them at a time when mental health and isolation has taken its toll. 
  Most doctors do not participate in assisted suicide in states where it is legal. Doctors are not trained in the art of taking a life, so who will train them in our state. Who will teach them to put together the cocktails of drugs the patient must consume orally? In the other states that have legalized assisted suicide the doctors learned from each other and the patients were the test subjects. This is still going on.  Patients should never be used as test subjects.
  Please vote "No" on SB 88. 
Thank you,

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The Catholic Bishops of Connecticut, along with members of the health care and disability communities strongly oppose this legislation for various reasons. These groups believe that the right of individual choice is far overshadowed by the potential negative impact of this legislation.

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Politicians do not want to here about the "slippery slope" this will cause in medical care. There are currently legislative and court actions to open the opportunity to Physician-Assisted suicide for non-terminal illnesses and remove some of the safeguards. They have been successful in some states. In Canada, people with mental illness can now utilize this practice. Europe is even worse.n kn
The legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide has created the need to doctor shop in the states where it has been legalized. Most doctors do not participate in the program. Medical personnel are almost never present when the patient self-administers the deadly medication.
This is not just a religious issue. Many in the medical and disability communities oppose Physician-Assisted Suicide. Learn the facts at ctstopsuicide.org

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