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Why promote physician-assisted suicide?

Posted in Commentary, Compassion and Choices, Conflict of Interest, Uncategorized on June 4, 2014 | Comments Off

This is a great article and please leave comments on the original free press article! Reposted from the Burlington Free press The aphorism, “He who pays the piper calls the tune” is especially true in politics, as well as in the not-for-profit world. Currently, the Vermont Ethics Network (VEN) has a traveling road show, despite […]

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Surprised by Death

Posted in Commentary on May 19, 2014 | Comments Off

When my father-in-law was in the last weeks of life, suffering with a diagnosis of advanced pancreatic and liver cancers, he insisted that he felt fine.  At one point, not long before he died, he actually told the Hospice nurse that he believed he had received the wrong diagnosis, and that in fact he wasn’t […]

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Boston Globe and Hartford Courant Report That the CT Assisted Suicide Bill Will Not Receive a Vote in Committee

Posted in Connecticut, Defeats in other states on March 25, 2014 | Comments Off

Here are the links to the articles about the victory in CT.  How we wish they were about a victory in VT!  Still, we are overjoyed that the passage of assisted suicide in Vermont did not topple the other dominoes, not at all.  If passage here was a victory for “the movement”, Maine, New Hampshire, […]

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Good News, But Be Vigilant

Posted in Connecticut, Defeats in other states on March 25, 2014 | Comments Off

Members of the Public Health Committee in the CT legislature are saying there probably won’t be a vote on the assisted suicide bill this year.  If there is no vote, the bill would be dead for this session of the legislature.  That is exceedingly good news, and, if true, it leaves Vermont isolated among the […]

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So Much for Those Prognoses of Six or Fewer Months to Live

Posted in Commentary, Prognosis Inaccuracy on April 15, 2013 | Comments Off

On the website of the New England Journal of Medicine, there is a “special article” entitled “Implementing a Death with Dignity Program at a Comnprehensive Cancer Center”.  It describes a real program and a real experience at “Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, the site of care for the Fred Hutchinson–University of Washington Cancer Consortium, a comprehensive […]

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How Could VT Lawmakers, Knowing the State’s Terrible Abuse Response Record, Consider Enacting Assisted Suicide, the Perfect Cover for Abusers?

Posted in Commentary, Elder Abuse, True Dignity, Vermont Legislature on April 14, 2013 | Comments Off

The Vermont House recently passed H. 105, an act requiring the Commissioner of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living, part of the VT Department of Human Services, to provide quarterly information on the number of adult abuse reports received by the department, the number actually investigated, the number declared unsubstianted after an investigation, and the reasons […]

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Why Do Pollsters Keep On Asking Vermonters Dishonest Questions about Assisted Suicide?

Posted in Commentary on March 1, 2013 | Comments Off

Why do pollsters in Vermont keep on asking dishonest questions about assisted suicide? We received a call today from a reporter wanting  to know our opinion on the new Castleton Polling Institute poll that purports to show Vermonters strongly support legalizing assisted suicide. We gave him our standard answers: Polls are meaningless unless people are […]

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