The Act Can be Read as Preventing Disclosure Under "Any Law"

By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA

The Act, § 17, states:

The information collected by the Department pursuant to this act . . . may not be made available for inspection . . . under the Freedom of Information Act . . ., or any other law. (Emphasis added).

If so, the Department of Health will be an agency beyond review, not only by law enforcement, but arguably by the courts and political authority. This fits the definition of “shadow government,”

A government run by an unelected bureaucracy, or a state within a state.

Mandatory Review of "Each Death" by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Is a Sham

To view similar information in a pdf format, see Margaret Dore's memo opposing Act 21-577, which can be viewed here and here.

The Act provides for review of “each death” under the Act by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The Act, states:

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall review each death involving a qualified patient who ingests a covered medication [lethal drug] and, if warranted by the review, may conduct an investigation.  (Emphasis added).

The Act, § 6(i)(1) .

The Act, however, has no mechanism for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to know when a death under the Act has occurred:

Death Certificate Requirements Protect Perpetrators

By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA

Act 21-577, § 6(h), says:

The cause of death listed on a death certificate shall identify the qualified patient’s underlying medical condition . . . . (Emphasis added).

The significance of requiring a medical condition to be listed as the cause of death is that it creates a legal inability to prosecute: The official legal cause of death is a medical condition (not murder) as a matter of law.

The Act also mandates that the manner of death (a lethal drug) not be disclosed on the death certificate.  The Act § 6(h), says::

The cause of death listed on a death certificate shall identify the qualified patient’s underlying medical condition consistent with the International Classification of Diseases without reference to the fact that the qualified patient ingested a covered medication. (Emphasis added).

The significance is an official legal cover up.

The Act's death certificate requirements protect perpetrators.

How the Act Works

By Margaret K. Dore, Esq., MBA

The Act has an application process to obtain the lethal drug, which includes a lethal drug request form with two required witnesses.[1] One of the witnesses is allowed to be the patient’s heir who will financially benefit from the patient’s death.[2] 

The Act features patient protections such as a second doctor and a requirement that the patient be capable. These protections, however, are trumped by death certificate requirements and otherwise unenforceable or illusory.

Once the lethal drug is issued by the pharmacy, there is no oversight.  No doctor or witness is required to be present at the death.  Even if the patient struggled, who would know?

Footnotes:

1.  The form can be viewed in the Act at §3(c), attached here at pages A-7 & A-8.
2.  Id., at page A-8.