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Our Tax Dollars at Work: Prettifying Suicide and Ignoring the Vulnerable

Posted in Choice Becomes "Duty" to Die, Chronic Diseases Rendered Terminal by Non-treatment, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Disability Rights Groups' Opposition, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, Language manipulation, Medical Opinions, Oregon, Personal Stories, Reasons to Oppose, Selfishness of Proponents, Selling of Suicide, Suicide Increase, Uncategorized, Vermont Legislature on February 20, 2015 | Comments Off

The Vermont Senate Health and Welfare Committee heard testimony on Wednesday on Act 39. The two questions being examined: “Is Act 39 working?” and “Should the sunset provisions in Act 39 be repealed?” Testimony was heard from a dozen people, nearly all of whom acknowledged that there are problems with the law, including the lack […]

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Bad But Not Hopeless News From Canada: Good News from Colorado

Posted in Canada, Canada Supreme Court, Colorado, Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Two Sides of the Same Coin, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, Legal Opinions, Legislative Efforts in Other States, Rejections of Assisted Suicide in other states, Uncategorized on February 7, 2015 | Comments Off

In a shocking unanimous decision yesterday, Canada’s  Supreme Court overturned the long-standing countrywide ban on doctor assisted death.  The ruling applies to the whole country. Because the ruling did not, as far as we can glean from newspaper reports, require that the poison by which a person’s life would be ended must be self administered, […]

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When Doctor-Assisted Death is Legal Supply Creates Demand

Posted in Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, Slippery Slope on January 22, 2015 | Comments Off

A December 10, 2014 posting by True Dignity guest author W. Carol Cleigh showed how the practice of assisted suicide has expanded over the sixteen years since it was legalized in Oregon (http://www.truedignityvt.org/whats-going-oregon/). The French journal LePoint recently interviewed Etienne Montero, dean of the law school at Belgium’s University of Namur and author of Rendezvous […]

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No Capital Punishment Belgium to Euthanize, Not Treat, Prisoner

Posted in Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, Slippery Slope on September 15, 2014 | Comments Off

This leaves us nearly speechless.  Here in the US, where many states execute murderers by lethal injection, there have been incidences in which the drugs have failed, causing great suffering and a prolonged death.  Many in the US are calling for an end to executions using drugs that do not always work in the ways […]

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Suicide by any other name…

Posted in Depression, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, Healthy people helped to commit suicide, Not a Peaceful Death, Slippery Slope, Suicide Contagion, Suicide Increase on August 12, 2014 | Comments Off

Again today, my Facebook feed is filled with statements of mourning about yet another reported suicide of a well known person. People who knew Robin Williams only by his public persona are grieved by his untimely death, allegedly at his own hands. We can only imagine the heartbreak being experienced by his friends and family. […]

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Still Think Assisted Suicide Is No Threat to People with Disabilities? Read This.

Posted in Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia on August 20, 2013 | Comments Off

A family in Canada has received an anonymous letter urging it to euthanize its 13 year old autistic child. Thanks to Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for posting this one on his blog page (http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2013/08/canadian-family-sent-letter-telling.html).  You can click on the letter to enlarge and read it. Proponents of assisted suicide will react to […]

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Why is Harry Chen Opposed to Patients Knowing which Health Care Providers Oppose Assisted Suicide?

Posted in Choice Becomes "Duty" to Die, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, Medical Power, Palliative Care, Slippery Slope, Uncategorized on May 22, 2013 | Comments Off

In response to a question regarding True Dignity’s proposal to develop a registry of “safe” health care providers and institutions, Vermont Commissioner of Health Harry Chen said one of the potential “silver linings” of S.77 is that it will spur conversations between patients and doctors about end-of-life decisions, and a “safe doctors” registry could discourage […]

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