Nevada

2023
“The myth of assisted suicide safeguards”
(Reno gazette journal — April 10, 2023)
When the assisted suicide advocates promote the safeguards of their bill, I hope our elected officials will see through their disingenuous representations.  The bait-and-switch practice of assisted suicide advocates is evidenced by the actions and comments of their various spokespersons.
J.M. Sorrell, the executive director of Massachusetts Death with Dignity, told a Massachusetts newspaper, “Once you get something passed, you can always work on amendments later, so I’m working to be patient.”
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2021
A prescribed suicide bill (SB 105) was introduced.
The bill failed to pass.
Text of SB 105

2019
“Nevada Legalizes Starving Incapacitated Patients”

(National Review — October 7, 2019)
“…the law allows people to order their future care givers to starve and dehydrate them to death”
More on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)

A doctor-prescribed suicide bill  (SB 165) was introduced in Nevada on February 14, 2019.
The bill passed in the House but died in the Senate on April 23, 2019 without a vote.
Text of SB 165
Analysis of SB 165

2017
A doctor-prescribed suicide bill SB 261, was introduced in Nevada.  It failed to pass.
Text of SB 261 as amended May 22, 2017
Analysis of SB 261 as amended May 22, 2017

2015
A doctor-prescribed suicide bill, SB 336, was introduced in Nevada.  It failed to pass.
Text of SB 336.
Analysis of SB 336.

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“Lawmakers begin wrapping up 2021 session: ‘Right to Return’ passes, Death with Dignity fails”
(Nevada Independent — May 30, 2021)
Edgar Flores, the sponsor of AB 351 (the bill to legalize assisted suicide), said he hopes to continue to work to pass such a law. Flores said “I think we’ll  come back in two years and do this whole thing again.

“Nevada Legalizes Starving Incapacitated Patients”
(National Review — October 7, 2019)
“…the law allows people to order their future care givers to starve and dehydrate them to death”
More on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking

“Nevada elderly has the highest rate of suicide”
(The Nevada Sagebrush — March 31, 2019)
In a 2018 report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found Nevada rates of suicide have declined between 1999 to 2016.  Although there has been a decline in youth suicide, Nevada has the highest rate of elderly suicide.

“Foes of Nevada right-to-die bill turn out in force for protest”
(Las Vegas Review Journal — April 13, 2017)
Dr. Brian Callister shows the quantity of pills he said a doctor would have to prescribe for a terminally-ill patient to commit suicide.  Callister and others spoke at a press conference on April 12, 2017 to oppose Senate Bill 261.
The bill was scheduled for a hearing on April 12 before the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services pulled it from the agenda just hours before the meeting was to begin.
[Note: The bill’s sponsors have pulled it on more than one occasion.  This has prevented opponents, many of whom had traveled a great distance to testify, from appearing before the committee.  The deadline for bills to pass out of committee or die was April 14 but sponsors requested and received an extension to keep the bill in play until June 5.]

“‘Death with dignity’ bill dies in Nevada Legislature”
(Las Vegas Review Journal — April 9, 2015)
State Sen. David Parks, D-Las Vegas, was the primary sponsor of Senate Bill 336…”We’ll try again next time,” Parks said, referring to the next legislative session in 2017.