California Senate Set to Vote on End-of-Life Options Act
The bill calls for doctors upon request, to give dying patients information about all legal end-of-life choices. These include hospice care and the option to refuse life-sustaining treatments. Steven Jamison is with the advocacy group Compassion & Choices.
<b> Steven Jamison: </b> We're not doing anything controversial here. We are saying we need a conversation that is honest, and open about what a patient's choices could be if worse comes to worse. <br>
Disability rights activists have some reservations. They say the measure could encourage some patients to see themselves as terminal, long before that's actually the case.
Kenny Goldberg, KPBS News.