I-1000 - Vote YES

Seattle Times: Yes
Post Intelligencer: Believes editorials should not take a stance on issues as personal as lethal injections for the terminally ill. That being said, the PI believes that you should not reject this if you feel that the safeguards are inadequate, since the Oregon experience belies that argument. Instead, a rejection or approval should come from your own personal moral beliefs.

This measure would permit terminally ill, competent, adult Washington residents, who are medically predicted to have six months or less to live, to request and self-administer lethal medication prescribed by a physician.

This one is easy to decide, based on your personal beliefs: Vote Yes if you believe in assisted suicide and vote No if you don’t.

This law mirrors the Death with Dignity law in Oregon that has been in place for over 10 years. From the Voter’s Pamphlet:

This choice belongs exclusively to the terminally ill individual. Government, politicians, religious groups and others should not dictate these personal decisions.

From the Seattle Times Editorials:

I-1000 aims to protect the patient by making him or her ask for the lethal dose several times, once with witnesses and in writing. It requires two doctors to certify that the patient has an untreatable disease likely to be fatal within six months.