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Opposition to Assisted Suicide Is An Urgent Issue of Justice and Civil Rights

Posted in Ablism, Acceptance of Unintended Consequences, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Disability Rights Groups' Opposition on March 30, 2015 | Comments Off

Here is a link to disability rights activist Stephen Mendelsohn’s wonderful testimony at the March 18, 2015 public hearing on the assisted suicide bill currently under consideration in the Connecticut General Assembly (HB 7015). Stephen is a leader of Second Thoughts Connecticut, a group of people with disabilities fighting the legalization of assisted suicide because […]

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The “Movement” for Assisted Suicide: A New Kind of Religious Zealotry

Posted in Acceptance of Unintended Consequences, Language manipulation, Religious "movement", Suicide Contagion, Uncategorized on March 21, 2015 | Comments Off

Assisted suicide is becoming a pseudo-religion, a form of spirituality, in which “(Brittany) Maynard has become a sort of secular saint for the cause, and the media have provided her hagiography,” according to Psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty of the University of California at Irvine.  What is being worshipped?  In a blogpost linked below, Kheriaty writes that it is […]

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Are the American People Smart Enough to See Through Compassion and Choices “Framing” of the Brittany Maynard Case?

Posted in Acceptance of Unintended Consequences, Selling of Suicide, Silencing Opposition, Slippery Slope on November 3, 2014 | Comments Off

Below, we link to a good article on the Brittany Maynard case, written before she committed assisted suicide but just as relevant now, especially as we await the edited death video that will almost certainly be released by Compassion and Choices and People Magazine.  The article discusses how the Maynard case is a “textbook example” […]

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Pharmacist and Legislative Observer: Physician-assisted Suicide Was More Important to Vermont Legislators Than the Wrongful and Tragic Loss of Innocent Human Life

Posted in Acceptance of Unintended Consequences, Vermont Legislature on July 12, 2013 | Comments Off

Bob Orleck,  who sent us the article in italics below,  was in the Senate and House for every stage of the debate and knows exactly what happened.  As a pharmacist with detailed knowledge of how the suicide drugs work, Bob is appalled that this law was passed.   A very accurate analysis of what Act […]

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Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Advocate, Phillip Nitschke: “There Will Be Casualties.”

Posted in Acceptance of Unintended Consequences, Slippery Slope on June 2, 2013 | Comments Off

The article linked here is tentatively supportive of euthanasia and assisted suicide under certain circumstances (http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/david-penberthy-a-holiday-to-die-for-with-dr-phil/story-e6freabc-1226655125931).  True Dignity adamantly disagrees with the author’s supposition that there is ever a “need” for the legalization of assisted suicide or euthanasia. We are posting the link because the article contains a quote from Dr. Phillip Nitschke, the leading […]

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