Attorney Margaret Dore has written a new article showing how abuse will occur and go undetected if S. 77, the bill passed by the House last night, becomes law. All those who insist it will provide choice are deluding themselves. We need to keep up the calls and letters, this time to Governor Peter Shumlin […]
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How The Bill WILL Lead to Abuse If the Governor Signs It: Why We Must Ask Him to Veto It
Posted in Alerts, Elder Abuse, Vermont Governor on May 14, 2013 | Comments Off
Woman Arrested for Elder Financial Abuse in Oregon Assisted Suicide Case
Posted in Elder Abuse on March 30, 2013 | Comments Off
Oregon Radio Station KZTV is reporting that a woman has been charged with “criminal mistreatment and aggravated theft” in a case involving assisted suicide. The state alleges that Tami Sawyer “took custody of Thomas Middleton, a dependent or elderly person, for the purpose of fraud.” Middleton, who had ALS, had moved into the home of […]
A Vermonter Lays Out the Reasons Why Our State Should Reject the Legalization of Assisted Suicide
Posted in Disability Rights Groups' Opposition, Elder Abuse on March 29, 2013 | Comments Off
Just today, we found the fine article below on the website of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet (http://www.notdeadyet.org/2013/02/vermont-great-article-by-activist-rosemarie-jackowski-on-assisted-suicide.html. How did we miss it before? It is by a Vermont author, Rosemary Jackowski, and it does a great job of laying out the reasons why our state should reject the legalization of assisted suicide. […]
Posted in Choice Becomes "Duty" to Die, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Elder Abuse, Slippery Slope, Uncategorized on January 27, 2013 | Comments Off
The Guardian, a progressive, left-leaning newspaper in England, reported recently that Japan’s Minister of Finance thinks elderly people should “hurry up and die”, to relieve pressure on the government to pay for their medical care: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese Despite the pro-suicide camp’s tactics of promoting this legislation in Vermont in order to ensure “choice”, it in fact […]
Oregon Lawyer’s Letter to the Editor about Why Assisted Suicide Laws Are an Invitation to Murder
Posted in Elder Abuse, Murder Invitation, Transparency Lack on January 20, 2013 | Comments Off
We have written before about how proponents of assisted suicide claim many people who obtain the lethal prescriptions there never use them. They even assert that some people live longer once they know they have the means to end their lives if they find them unbearable. If there assertions are true, it is shocking that […]
Users of Assisted Suicide are Seniors with Money: Not Surprising or Reassuring
Posted in Elder Abuse on August 15, 2012 | Comments Off
The article below was posted today on the website Mass against Assisted Suicide http://www.massagainstassistedsuicide.org/). It is attorney Margaret Dore’s response to Sunday’s New York Times article on assisted suicide in Oregon. She does not find it at all surprising (or reassuring) that those who die from assisted suicide are affluent and well-educated. _________________________________________________________________________ By Margaret […]
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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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