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Hopeful News: The California Legislature May Refuse to Legalize Assisted Suicide

Posted in California, Defeats in other states, Suicide Contagion on May 23, 2015 | Comments Off

Though nothing is certain at this point, Aaron Kheriaty, a psychiatrist and medical ethicist from the University of California at Irvine who is closely following the assisted suicide bill in California , writes in an article posted on the Wall Street Journal website last night that the bill’s recent placement on a Senate committee’s “suspense […]

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More Good News: The CT Assisted Suicide Bill is Officially Dead in Committee

Posted in Colorado, CT, Defeats in other states on April 11, 2015 | Comments Off

We wrote a couple of days ago that the CT assisted suicide bill appeared to be dead.  Now the death has been officially pronounced. Here’s a link to a news story: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Aid-in-dying-bill-fails-in-committee-6190352.php

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Some More Good News: Assisted Suicide Dies in Nevada Legislature

Posted in Nevada, Nevada on April 10, 2015 | Comments Off

Here’s a link to the story.  There will be no hearing, and the bill will not come to a vote in committee.   http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/death-dignity-bill-dies-nevada-legislature

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Good News from New Jersey: Another State Has Had the Good Sense to Reject Assisted Suicide, At Least for the Time Being

Posted in Defeats in other states, New Jersey on December 16, 2014 | Comments Off

Members of the Board of True Dignity were in the process of calling each NJ senator’s district office to urge him or her to vote against assisted suicide when we heard this wonderful news from the office of Senator Thomas Kean Jr.  Having squeaked through committee with no recommendation, the assisted suicide legislation we thought […]

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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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More Wonderful News, and a Double Embarrassment for Vermont

Posted in Conflict of Interest, Defeats in other states on March 18, 2014 | Comments Off

It looks as if Connecticut’s  assisted suicide bill will die in committee just as the bills in New Hampshire and Massachusetts did.  Wonderful!  Again Vermont appears as a weird outlier. http://www.myrecordjournal.com/southington/southingtonnews/3970397-129/legislators-vote-unlikely-this-year-on-assisted-suicide-bill.html?fb_action_ids=10202892226642831&fb_action_types=og.comments&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[621250624616733]&action_type_map=[%22og.comments%22]&action_ref_map=[]. By the way, the Vermont representative who testified in favor of the Connecticut bill was Linda Waite-Simpson.   Simpson, a member of the Vermont House […]

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