The state Department of Health is holding a public hearing this morning on the new Death with Dignity law that takes effect next month, and people have until the end of today to file written comments. (You can post them online here.) As I wrote in January, the DOH form for doctors requires merely that doctors say they have determined that a patient has six months or less to live, without getting into how such a tricky determination was made. You can see all the forms here, including the one for patients attesting that they wish to end their lives “in a human and dignified manner.” Another goes to physicians after patients have taken their lives asking, among other things, whether there were any complications with the medication.