OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bill being considered in Olympia would make it easier for terminally ill people to end their lives under the state’s Death With Dignity law.
Voters approved Initiative 1000 in 2008 and went into effect in March 2009.
It allows people with less than 6 months to live to request lethal doses of medication.
KING 5 reports changes being considered in the Senate would add registered nurse practitioners and physicians assistants to the health providers allowed to prescribe the drugs.
Medications could also be mailed or delivered to patients, and health care facilities couldn’t prohibit their employees from helping someone end their life if it’s done outside the facility.