Monday, April 29, 2024
Climate Change Prediction Bust Leaves Montana Park Scrambling To Change Signs
Thursday, February 29, 2024
The Baxter Decision
In 2009, the Montana Supreme Court issued Baxter v. State, which cracked open the door to the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia in Montana.* A local doctor subsequently announced that he was actively killing or assisting to kill his patients. As far as I know, no one did anything to stop him.
Assisted suicide and euthanasia became de facto legal. Some of these deaths were presumably voluntary. In my personal experience from other states, deaths also occur on an involuntary or nonvoluntary basis, for example due to financial concerns. Adult children want the money right away and/or fear that mom or dad will change their wills, leaving the children with nothing.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
New Bill to Overturn Baxter
The purpose will be to clarify once and for all that physician-assisted suicide is not legal in Montana.
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
A Short History of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in Montana
By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
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A. Assisted Suicide
In 1895, the Montana Legislature enacted a criminal statute prohibiting assisted suicide as a "crime against the public safety."[1] In 1907, 1921 and 1947, this statute was re-codified, but its text remained unchanged.[2] The statute stated: "Every person who deliberately aids, or advises or encourages another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony."[3]