Bill > H2233

This bill, titled "Relative to death with dignity," proposes to allow qualified patients to end their lives with physician assistance, a concept often referred to as physician-assisted suicide. The bill outlines specific requirements for witnesses to a patient's request, stipulating that one witness cannot be a relative, an heir to the patient's estate, or employed at the healthcare facility where the patient is receiving care, with a provision for a facility-designated witness if the patient is an inpatient. It also details penalties for unauthorized actions, classifying the willful alteration, forgery, concealment, or destruction of documents related to a patient's end-of-life decisions with the intent to hasten death as a felony, while similar actions affecting other healthcare decisions are considered a misdemeanor.