Articles written by The Family Of Booth Gardner

the family of Booth Gardner|Mar 18, 2013

Booth Gardner, the charismatic Democrat who ousted Washington’s last Republican governor in 1984, launched the Basic Health Care program and later used his long personal battle with Parkinson’s disease to spearhead the state’s death with dignity law, has died. Gardner was 76. Gardner died March 15 of complications related to Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Because Parkinson’s itself is not fatal, the death with dignity law approved by voters in 2008 did not apply to Gardner. “We’re very sad to lose m...