With the 2014 legislative session now underway we once again have the opportunity to take up an issue of great importance: Aid in Dying (AID). And take it up we should.
For the uninitiated, AID is a law that would allow competent terminally ill patients, who have been deemed by two physicians to have six months or less to live, to receive a prescription for a lethal dose of medication in order to hasten their deaths. The key aspect of the proposed legislation is that it is entirely voluntary. Neither patients nor doctors are required to participate. It is merely an option. An option that exists in Oregon, Washington State, Montana and Vermont but not in Connecticut, where it is strictly prohibited. That needs to change.
