X-Message-Number: 24150 From: Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:26:44 EDT Subject: Oregon Residency and overall progress Hello all: James Swaze wrote: Alan, I would tend to doubt your residence in OR theory. I could be wrong but I'll still explain my reasoning. Oregon has state income tax and we across the river to the north in Washington do not. However, the enlightened Oregonians do not charge sales tax for anything, whereas again the opposite is true in Washington. Another issue is tax on licensing vehicles, way high in WA but low to nil in OR. I bet it's easy now for all of us to figure out that for various reasons less than honest people living close to the border pull shenanigans on both sides of the river for various ways to cheat on taxes. For this reason and especially college tuition issues if memory serves me correctly, I went to PSU, there's a six month residency criteria. This may have changed and I didn't bother looking it up before posting. *****Alan Mole replies: I found the actual Oregon statute at http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/127.html Here is the residency requirement: 127.860 3.10. Residency requirement. Only requests made by Oregon residents under ORS 127.800 to 127.897 shall be granted. Factors demonstrating Oregon residency include but are not limited to: (1) Possession of an Oregon driver license; (2) Registration to vote in Oregon; (3) Evidence that the person owns or leases property in Oregon; or (4) Filing of an Oregon tax return for the most recent tax year. [1995 c.3 3.10; 1999 c.423 8] I think if you rent an apartment or stay with a friend so you have a legal address, you can get a driver's license on day one. In fact the law usually demands it. Length of residence to register to vote I don't know (James, could you call and find out?) Obviously if you rent the merest apartment you'll get a copy of a lease and be able to show it. With enough advanced warning you could even file a tax return, using a friend's address as "home". But the tax return should not be necessary. Note that not all the above (1, 2, and 3) could be required and any one is probably enough. Consider an old woman who does not drive, is not registered to vote, and lives in her daughter's house. Neither 1, 2,3 and probably not 4 apply to her, yet she in undeniably a resident. So if you did 1, maybe 2, and 3, surely you'd be OK. Thus, although indeed the Oregonians do not *want* people coming from all over to use their law, I think residency is a paper tiger and would prove to be no obstacle. On the other hand, the law does specify drugs to be the agent of death and does not mention any other possibility. Private correspondance informs me that barbiturates do not damage the brain and are even neuro-protective. So a simple death by barbiturate overdose, as is usual in Oregon, might be almost as good as hypothermia. Or perhaps one could take a lethal dose of barbiturates and still arrange for hypothermia by some method ("If you think I feel uncomfortably warm dear, please put me in the icewater") It's hard to say on that. But, overall, it appears one could go to Oregon, establish residency in a day, and start the process of getting permission and obtaining drugs to end your life without damaging your brain. Take them, die within hours with a body still fairly healthy, with a doctor and rescue team standing by, ready to start the instant the heart stops. I think this is progress, compared to wasting away in misery in a hospital and dying when nobody was around and having to wait for a doctor to come pronounce death and then for a rescue team to arrive and start cooldown. I'll try private correspondance with a physician next, and reserve the letter to the Medical Society. Alan Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24150