Legislator dies using medical suicide law he helped pass

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A former Vermont legislator and House majority leader has died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives, his wife said. Willem Jewett, who was diagnosed with mucosal melanoma, died Jan. 12 at 58.

FILE — Vermont Rep. Willem Jewett, D-Ripton, left, chats with his daughter, Anneke, during the first day of the legislature, in Montpelier, Vt., Jan. 5, 2004. The former Vermont lawmaker and House majority leader died on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. Jewett, who had cancer, helped pass a Vermont's aid-in-dying law that allows terminally ill patients to ask their doctors for a lethal dose of medication.

A former Vermont legislator and House majority leader has died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives, his wife said.

 

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I wish the term 'suicide' was not used. As per the actual Acts in Australian states, it stipulates 'Voluntary Assisted Dying is NOT suicide'.

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