Jennifer Dailey-Provost, D-Salt Lake City has sponsored it three of the past four years. Rebecca Chavez-Houck sponsored the measure before and Rep. Similar legislation has been sponsored repeatedly in the past. “I believe fight for that in her name, to be able to try to help get this bill passed in honor of her and so many other people who should at least have the choice,” Kylie’s mother said. “She should have had that opportunity and that comfort and relief of knowing that was in place if that’s what she chose to do,” said Allred. This week Allred will be on Capitol Hill when HB74 - which would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs when a terminally ill patient makes a clear, written request to end their life - is expected to get a legislative hearing. A week later, her family laid her to rest. 20, at just 27-years-old, Kylie passed away. “She wanted what was left of her dignity.
It took her legs first and moved up into her arms and hands and she just pretty much became a vegetable,” Allred said. “She’d been in a wheelchair for about a year-and-a-half.
The Legislature gets to make that ultimate decision about life or death, suffering or relief. When she learned of her own fate, Kaplanis told her mother that once she got to the point that she couldn’t take care of herself she wanted to end things.īut in Utah, it is against the law for a doctor to prescribe medications that would end a patient’s life. Kaplanis had researched the issue even before her diagnosis and was a strong believer in giving terminally ill patients a choice. She had a fine line that once she couldn’t use her arms and hands, she wanted to be completed. “To sit there and have her lose her ability to use her legs, lose her ability to walk, lose her ability to use her hands,” Allred said, “she didn’t want to go through all those steps. Her mother, Tammy Allred, is fighting to change that in honor of her daughter through a bill in the Legislature. As the disease progressed, she made clear to her family she wanted a death with dignity, but Utah state law prohibits assisted suicide. Kaplinis was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease three years ago. (Tammy Allred) A photo of Kylie Kaplanis on Dec 25, 2021.
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