Physician-assisted suicide

CAMDEN, N.J. (CN) — The New Jersey appellate court agrees that the trial court should have dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, a state law that allows terminally ill patients to obtain and take medicine to euthanize themselves. A terminally ill patient and his doctor said the law violates his religious beliefs, but they lack standing because the act does not compel patients to request or take the life-ending medicine and is designed so patients must volunteer to participate in physician-assisted suicide.