Minnesota goes for marriage-like rights with Project 515
”I had no right to make decisions about Eric’s remains. I felt betrayed and angry. After all, we had lived out our commitment to each other and commitment to Tess. We had done what we were supposed to do to protect our family.”
Tim Reardon, a gay man who lost his partner, Eric, to brain cancer and says he was not granted end-of-life decisions that a married couple would have been granted in that state even after filing a number of expensive legal papers to cover just such an event. An initiative called Project 515 is introducing the Final Wishes Act is being proposed to extend to Reardon and other same-sex couples some of those benefits. (The Minnesota Independent)
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