Sorrell supports the state’s adoption of an Oregon-style death with dignity law. In 2004, he launched the Vermont Attorney General End of Life Care Initiative, to address pain and symptom management in end of life care and to remove barriers to insurance reimbursement for hospice services, pain management and palliative care.

Donovan also wants to see Vermont pass a statute modeled after the 1997 Oregon law that would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with self-administered lethal medications prescribed by a doctor. “I support it. It’s about choice. It’s about dignity.”

“I think there’s enough safeguards in place, and I think Oregon is a good example of a law that works.”*