After the State of Oregon, Washington becomes the second State to pass a “Death with Digniy Act”.
Although, like Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Act”, I-1000 gives doctors the authority to prescribe a lethal dose of medications to terminally ill individuals under strict controls, it condemns to continued suffering as many as 40% of those who desperately want to end their life because of intolerable suffering but cannot do so under the law because their illness is not diagnosed as “terminal”.

Ted Goodwin, President of Final Exit Network said : “ There is much more to be done Unfortunately, many patients do not meet I-1000’s strict criteria. Individuals with neurological illnesses such as Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease often loose the reason and will to live, long before their disease qualifies them as “terminal”. For these individuals, I-10000 nor the Oregon law go far enough.

Final Exit Network is the only organization in the United States that will support individuals who are not “terminally ill” (6 months or less to live) to hasten their death.