Morbid reason more Americans are traveling to Vermont and Oregon...
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Com Published: 16:01, 20 August 2024 | Updated: 16:01, 20 August 2024 e-mail View comments Francine Milano, 61, got the news that her ovarian cancer had returned in 2023, after it had been dormant for over 20 years. Her doctors told her it was terminal. Staring down the costs, side effects, travel and pain that she would have to deal with if she chose to treat her cancer with traditional therapy, she decided to opt for a different path: medical aid in dying.
So the Pennsylvania native looked to Vermont , one of only a handful of US states where physician assisted suicide is legal , and out-of-state residents can travel to be euthanized. She's started the process twice. The second time, which happened in June 2024, she met her doctor on a Zoom from a parking lot just over Vermont's border.
Ms Milano lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. To get to Burlington, Vermont, where she met her doctor the first time she started the aid-in-dying process, she had to drive nine hours. To reach the border of the state, which she did the second time she started the aid-in-dying process, she had to drive six hours Ten states and the District of Columbia allow assisted suicide.
Vermont and Oregon are the only two that allow out of state visitors to apply to the program Critics of medical a.