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A state senator from Thompson Falls wants to ban physician assisted suicide. It's part of a bill he's introducing for the upcoming legislative session. Republican Senator Greg Hinkle says Montana's law should be clear and simple when it comes to physician assisted suicide. No doctor can help a person kill themselves. Hinkle says "What this deals with is the actual act of somebody encouraging somebody, a patient, to have somebody take their life. Some people say it's a matter of choice and I don't think so, because once that decision is made the choice is no longer the patient's, it belongs to a family member or a doctor or whoever." Roberta King disagrees. She wants people to have that choice. She says she watched her father die a slow, painful death.

Later in the story: Hinkle says a family member was told he only had a short while to live. That was over 30 years ago and he's still alive with great grand kids. He thinks people could take advantage of a sad person for malicious purposes. He says "If you're in a depressed state, which some people can be, then they might say I give up instead of fighting it. Look at how many cases of people with debilitating diseases who are going to fight."

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Hauser, Christian. "Physician assisted suicide ban proposal". KECI Missoula. 5/30/2010. <www.keci.com/Physician-assisted-suicide-ban-proposal/7357118>. KECI-TV, P.O. Box 5268, Missoula, MT 59806, U.S.A.

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