California Legislator Wants to Kill Dementia Patients in Assisted Suicides

California State Senator Catherine Blakespear is reigniting the debate over assisted suicide by seeking to expand the state’s End of Life Option Act (EOLOA). The 2016 law, which allows terminally ill adults with less than six months to live to request life-ending drugs, could soon include patients with early to mid-stage dementia and other non-terminal conditions, if Blakespear’s proposals gain traction.

Last year alone, 1,281 Californians received drugs from a licensed doctor to kill themselves...