10-06-2015, 05:38 PM
The morphine didn't kill your dad though. The morphine knocked him out and took him out of pain when he was at the very end of life. That's not medically-assisted suicide.
For physician-assisted suicide in states that allow it, high doses of Pentobarbital are preferred and cost under $400. Unfortunately, since European manufacturers have stopped selling it in the U.S. because it's used to carry out the death penalty, it's sometimes hard to get and Seconal is instead used (at $2,000 a pop).
I don't know what drugs California physicians will be using when the law goes into effect here.
For physician-assisted suicide in states that allow it, high doses of Pentobarbital are preferred and cost under $400. Unfortunately, since European manufacturers have stopped selling it in the U.S. because it's used to carry out the death penalty, it's sometimes hard to get and Seconal is instead used (at $2,000 a pop).
I don't know what drugs California physicians will be using when the law goes into effect here.