Portland - A physician who campaigned for the U.S. state of Oregon's Death
With Dignity Act has died using lethal chemicals obtained under the law
he championed. He was 83.
A
spokesman for the organization Compassion and Choices says Peter
Goodwin died Sunday at his home surrounded by his family. Goodwin told the Oregonian last month he's battled a rare
brain disorder for six years.
Oregon
was the first state to allow terminally ill patients to take their own
lives with the help of lethal medications supplied by a doctor.
The act was the result of a long campaign by Goodwin, and he's called it his greatest legacy.
