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Resident urges 'death with dignity' law change after father’s decline; another commenter presses for committee transparency
Summary
At Livingston County’s public comment period, Laurie Cowan described her father’s deterioration from Parkinson’s with Lewy body dementia and urged Michigan law change to allow terminally ill people to end their lives peacefully; Stephanie Booth urged videotaping of committee meetings and called for removal of a committee chair.
During the board’s first call to the public, Laurie Cowan of Dexter Township recounted her father’s progression from Parkinson’s disease with Lewy body dementia and urged a change in Michigan law to allow terminally ill individuals the option of a peaceful death. Cowan said her father told her he had "stockpiled some pills" and later "begged me to help him die," and…
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