Euthanasia Bill Withdrawn From Consideration

Today, SB 1800, the proposed "Death with Dignity" Act, was indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration.

The Act had sought to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia, including on a non-voluntary basis.

The bill had been referred to three Senate Committees; Health Policy, Rules and Judiciary.

Euthanasia Bill Introduced

Florida Senate Chamber

SB 1800, seeking to legalize assisted suicide and and euthanasia, has been introduced in the Florida Senate.

The bill has been assigned to the Senate Judiciary, Rules and  Health Policy Committees. To view the text of the bill, click here.

Sisters Arrested After Admitting They 'Euthanized' Father, Sold Home for $120,000 Profit

Nicole Darrah
Fox News

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Two sisters were arrested in Florida on Tuesday for allegedly admitting to law enforcement that they killed their father as part of a "premeditated" act four years ago because he refused to enter an assisted living facility.

Mary-Beth Tomaselli, 63, and Linda Roberts, 62, were taken into custody after they detailed to a male confidant whom they befriended in recent months what they had seemingly done, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told reporters on Tuesday.

Roberts told the man — who recorded his conversations with her — that she and Tomaselli "euthanized" their father, Anthony Tomaselli, in March 2015, when he was 85 years old. The sheriff said that "Linda gave very specific details about how she and Mary-Beth killed their father."  ...

Physician-Assisted Suicide Traumatic for Family Members

By Margaret Dore, Esq.

In 2012, a European research study addressed trauma suffered by persons who witnessed legal assisted suicide in Switzerland.[1] The study found that one out of five family members or friends present at an assisted suicide was traumatized. These people,

experienced full or sub-threshold PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) related to the loss of a close person through assisted suicide.[2]

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