Right to Die in New Mexico

      The Right to Die is the right of terminally ill and in pain adults to receive medical aid in dying or end life-sustaining treatment. It allows mentally competent adults with 6 months or less to live to self administer a lethal drug which lets them die painlessly in their sleep. They can choose when they die and the suffering they are willing to endure before they pass.
     The Right to Die is a basic human right that is only legal in 5 states in the US; Vermont, California, Oregon, Washington and Montana. Those who do not live in Right to Die states must move to the East coast if they want to receive medical aid in dying. In 2015, it was almost legalized in New Mexico but the District Court who ruled in support of it was overruled by the Court of Appeals. The people of New Mexico deserve the right to die on their own terms; they deserve the right to avoid pain and agony as they die.