Showing posts with label Kenneth Stevens MD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenneth Stevens MD. Show all posts

Friday, October 21, 2016

"If my doctor had believed in assisted suicide, I would be dead"

Jeanette Hall and her son Scott in  November 2000
By Jeanette Hall

I live in Oregon where assisted suicide is legal. Our law passed in 1997 by a ballot measure that I voted for.

In 2000, I was diagnosed with cancer and told that I had 6 months to a year to live.  I knew that our law had passed, but I didn’t know exactly how to go about doing it. I tried to ask my doctor, Kenneth Stevens MD, but he didn’t really answer me. In hindsight, he was stalling me.