A terminally ill Connecticut woman ended her life in Vermont on Thursday after receiving a lethal medication.
Lynda Bluestein suffered from terminal cancer and sought expanded access to Vermont’s law that allows people in her situation to deliberately end their lives.
Bluestein’s husband described the procedure as “comfortable and peaceful” just like she hoped.
“I’m so happy I don’t have to do this (suffer) anymore,” the woman’s last words were.
Last year, the lifelong activist told The Associated Press that she didn’t want to die like her mother after a prolonged illness.
She said she wanted to die surrounded by her husband, children, grandchildren, dog, and friends.
“I wanted to have a death that was meaningful, but that it didn’t take forever…for me to die,” she said.
“I want to live the way I always have, and I want my death to be in keeping with the way I wanted my life to be always,”
“I wanted to have agency over when cancer had taken so much for me that I could no longer bear it. That’s my choice.”
