Connecticut woman becomes 1st non-resident to use Vermont's medical aid in dying law
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A Connecticut woman with terminal cancer is set to become the first non-resident to use Vermont's medical in dying law on Thursday.
A Connecticut woman will be the first non-resident of Vermont to use the state's medical aid in dying law on Thursday morning, according to local reports.
Lynda Bluestein, a 76-year-old from Bridgeport, is suffering from terminal ovarian cancer and fallopian tube cancer. The five-year survival rate for these cancers is 31%, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Currently, there are nine other states aside from Vermont -- California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington -- as well as the District of Columbia where medical aid in dying is legal.
Until recently, Oregon was the only state that allowed terminally ill non-residents to seek physician-assisted suicide after a ruling in 2022 that it was unconstitutional to deny medical aid in dying to those who didn't live in Oregon.
