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Pharmacist Wants Brittany Maynard to Know What Happens When Suicide Drugs Don’t Work as Intended

Posted in Not a Peaceful Death, Pharmacists on October 31, 2014 | Comments Off

The  letter below was written by a pharmacist in the hope that Brittany Maynard will see it.  It is heartfelt, and also full of facts that she should know. Dear Brittany Maynard: I am publishing this in the hope that it will be seen by you since I do not know how to send you […]

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Assisted Suicide Cannot Promise Brittany Maynard a Good Death

Posted in Compassion and Choices, Not a Peaceful Death on October 9, 2014 | Comments Off

Did you know that many assisted suicides experience complications? Assisted suicide is wrongly marketed to the public as a flawless, peaceful escape from suffering. It can be a painful and scary death. It can include gasping, muscle spasms, nausea, vomiting, panic, confusion, failure to produce unconsciousness, waking from unconsciousness and a failure to cause death. […]

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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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Pharmacist Bob Orleck: “Neither physicians nor pharmacists know how to deal with the lethal prescriptions and with what to do when things go wrong.”

Posted in Not a Peaceful Death, Pharmacists on April 22, 2013 | Comments Off

Robert L. Orleck Pharmacist P.O. Box 174 Randolph, VT 05060 802-728-9806 [email protected]   Re: Physician Assisted Suicide S77 (as originally proposed) Medical realities and facts need to be seriously considered.   What should be most compelling is that there are medical realities and facts that cry out to be heard over the moving and sincere […]

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