Connecticut Woman Ends Her Life by Legal Euthanasia in Vermont
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A Connecticut woman who fought for Vermont to extend their euthanasia law to allow people from other states to travel there to die has ended her life as part of a settlement allowing her access to their assisted suicide program.
Lynda Bluestein, 76, died by euthanasia in Vermont on Thursday.
Bluestein was battling fallopian tube cancer.
The euthanasia advocacy group Compassion & Choices filed a lawsuit against the state of Vermont on Bluestein’s behalf in August 2022.
The lawsuit argued that the state not offering assisted suicide services to non-residents violated the U.S. Constitution.
The New York Daily News reports, “The state agreed in March to let Bluestein die there legally, then in May extended that right to all terminally ill people wishing to end their lives when they choose. Oregon is the only other state to allow medically assisted suicide for non-residents.”
Bluestein told The Associated Press last year that she wanted to die on her own terms.
“I wanted to have agency over when cancer had taken so much for me that I could no longer bear it,” she said. “That’s my choice.”
In 2013, the Vermont Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act, or Act 39, legalized assisted suicide for people battling terminal illnesses if their prognosis was for six more months of life or less.
Euthanasia is legal in California, Maine, Oregon, Colorado, Montana, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Washington, Hawaii, and New Mexico. The only other state that allows people to travel there to die is Oregon.
Florida, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Wisconsin, and New Ham
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