10/08/09 Greenwich, Norwalk doctors file assisted suicide lawsuit - Greenwich Time

Two southwestern Connecticut physicians want to help terminally ill patients to die, so they're asking Connecticut courts to decide on the meaning of "suicide" in state law.

The attempt to overturn a 40-year-old law could have national ramifications and make Connecticut a focus of debate on end-of-life issues that divide the public and the medical profession.

Dr. Gary Blick, a Norwalk physician specializing in infectious diseases, who filed the lawsuit with Dr. Ron Levine, of Greenwich, said during a news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday that the unconsciousness of "terminal sedation" is the only legal treatment for them to offer dying patients.....

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