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People Supporting Assisted Suicide Laws Often Believe They Require Doctors to Screen All Patients for Depression: They Do Not

Posted in Depression, Out of State/General, True Dignity on June 26, 2012 | Comments Off

It is well-known that the treatable mental illness of depression causes suicidal thoughts, so much so that such thoughts are considered an identifying characteristic of depression for diagnostic purposes (http://www.mental-health-today.com/dep/dsm.htm).   Advocates for assisted suicide are misinformed, and misinform others, when they assert that depressed people are not at risk from assisted suicide. They assert, […]

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Remove the Euphemism And Assisted Suicide Is Homicide: Commentary from the Toronto Star

Posted in Out of State/General on June 19, 2012 | Comments Off

http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/1212771 From the online site of the Toronto Star DiManno: B.C. assisted suicide ruling an alarming interpretation of Charter June 18, 2012 Rosie DiManno Remove the euphemism and assisted suicide is homicide. Justifiable? B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith thinks so, with an alarming landmark interpretation of the Canadian Charter that would allow the extinguishing […]

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An Factual Article and a Burlington Free Press Editorial on the Defeat of Assisted Suicide in the Vermont Senate

Posted in Editorials, Out of State/General, Vermont on May 14, 2012 | Comments Off

We just got the new issue of the Patients Rights Council newsletter, with an excellent article about the defeat of the 10th attempt to legalize assisted suicide in our state. The Patients Rights Council article contains excerpts from the Burlington Free Press’s April 13 editorial praising the defeat of assisted suicide on the grounds that […]

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