Papa's painful death inspires the Bill sponsor “death with dignity”

Governor Joe Lombardo has already said that he would put a veto.

Influent religious leaders of Nevada have published advertisements in large newspapers that praise the governor for his attitude.

But that did not stop that the meeting of Freshman, Joe Dalia, D-Henderson, in the leadership of a hard struggle, to be adopted and adopted his “death with dignity” in the legislation of Nevada.

In painful situations at the end of the lifespan, Dalias AB 346 would allow medical supported suicide. It would reflect similar laws in 11 states, including California, Colorado and Montana.

Dalia recently said in Nevada's newsmakers that he had a lot of pressure to approve the bill.

“This is the only bill in which people will die badly over the next two years,” he said to Host Sam Shad.

“I put a lot of pressure on myself,” said Dalia. “I also feel like my co-sponsor (assembly member Danielle Gallant, R-Las Vegas) and I am only aware of the severity. And we know that this is an invoice that will affect many people.”

Dalia's personal history only contributes to his self -imposed pressure.

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“The (father of the father) only underlines how – in a state that appreciates personal autonomy so intensely – so that my father pushed this death sentence on him, this terrible death sentence that he had to live in slow motion …

“It was wrong,” continued Dalia and suppressed emotions while he spoke. “And I think this personal experience is a large part of why I was ready to achieve this law.”

The session 2025 is the sixth time that some legislators have tried to adopt a law that supports a suicide of doctors. But this time is different, said Dalia. This topic is no longer discussed on non -party lines. The co-sponsor of AB346, Gallant, voted against the measure at the 2023 meeting.

This session also received three Republican voices when it passed its first big test and won the voices of the Floor of the Assembly 23-19. Now it goes to the state of the state.

“This is a new record, isn't it?” Dalia said about the three GOP votes that had received AB346 – from Gallant, Rebecca Edgeworth from Las Vegas and Bert Gurr by Elko, whose district 33 White Pine County and parts of four other rural districts.

“It switched to non -partisan legislation,” said Dalia. “It was really important for me to have Danielle Gallant as a co-sponsor at the beginning, because it really hammered home that this is something that exceeds the party lines.”

Dalia hopes to blur the party's departments even more, since the legislative procedure continues with death with the right to worry.

“Well, you know, we see a certain development and a momentum there to do something that is not considered in these red-against-blue terms,” ​​said Dalia.

Dalia suggested that the cross -party support were to be expected before the vote on the assembly floor was decreased.

“I was not surprised by the total number of voices because I knew from private conversations that we had people who supported this,” said Dalia. “And while we continue, we may see that the dynamics continue to build.”

In 2023, death with the dignity, the Senate, adopted 11-10 with one voice. If the upper house passed in 2025, the governor would be a “hard sale”.

The latest newspaper advertisements that request Lombardo to put the legislative template a veto have been signed by executives from the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of the saints of the past few days and other denominations. Catholics and HLT are the two largest religious groups in Nevada.

For some it would be surprising if Lombardo did not have the church leaders on the side of the church leaders. The first signatories of the letter was the most awesome George Leo Thomas, the Catholic leader of Nevada and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas.

“The assisted suicide conveys the message that human life is unnecessary and that people have reduced the value when they become weak, vulnerable or unproductive,” wrote the church leaders in their advertisement to Lombardo.

But Dalia hopes to influence Lombardo.

“It is about conducting these conversations with the governor's team to ensure that this is approaching a place where he can feel comfortable when he signs it,” said Dalia.

Dalia was surprised that Lombardo was published in this phase of the legislative process on social media against the draft law.

“I think you never want to find out the fate of your bill on social media,” said Dalia. “This is a very 2025 result. But I was a little surprised at the timing, because with so much more than left to the left I took that we might be able to continue this conversation.”

The governor's veto message in 2023, his youngest social media contribution and what doctors Dalia told when his father painfully died, had a similar message, said Dalia.

“What they said (doctors) was almost exactly what the Veto message said last session and what the tweet said in this session,” said Dalia. “(You said) The advanced pain management and palliative care have so far advanced that you will be fine.”

This was not painful as the case.

“We came this day,” said Dalia. “Obviously it didn't go like that. It was a really great way to see him going because he was afraid all the time.

“He was aware of it, but couldn't talk about breathing,” continued Dalia. “But through his eyes you can see how he communicated with us non -verbally that he was aware of what happened. And when he got a few words out, he said, she (doctor) lodged. She promised. This effect is shit.”

These memories keep the outsider Dalia fighting.

“I knew when we dealt with that the chances would be long,” he said, about the start of the efforts to death with the right to worry. “But I only think of my father and I think of the patients like him who suffer from and indicated that they really hope that this will happen so that they can use it.”