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Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

8. I hope you can move to Oregon if the time is right.

Reply to Stardust (Reply #5)

Sun Aug 16, 2015, 03:01 PM

Aug 2015

My uncle lived in Portland, and he chose to go that way. He probably could have lived another couple of years, since he was not in bad enough health to die, but he was immobilized and didn't want to continue to go downhill with no quality of life. It was only fair to give him that option. With a few states already deciding to give this option, it might not be that long before we all have options to die with dignity. At least we can now find a state to allow that.