Case Study: The Minnesota Compassionate Care Act

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The upcoming legislation scheduled a hearing for the Minnesota Compassionate Care Act. This act (also known as Death with Dignity act) giving the right for patients to legally choose PSA as their final choice. However, this is only allowed with a certain set of specific rules in order to be granted permission. First, they must be over 18 years old and a Minnesota resident. Secondly they must be able to be mentally capacity of making health decisions. In addition to being diagnosed with a terminally ill disease that will result in death in less than 6 months. Those are the minimum requirements, not to mention other check ups by doctors and hospitals staff. The organization Arc would be against the bill for the following reasons. First, they

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