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

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 and “Should the sunset provisions in Act 39 be repealed?”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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What’s Going On in Oregon?

Posted in Oregon on December 10, 2014 | Comments Off on What’s Going On in Oregon?

Think Oregon’s assisted suicide law is killing people “safely”?  W. Carol Cleigh has gone through the annual reports, and what she finds is alarming, in terms of what we know and in terms of what we will never know.  Here’s her article, in italics:   It has been widely asserted in the media storm promoting […]

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Letter to the Burlington Free Press: Assisted Suicide Law is Not Working, Should Be Repealed

Posted in Letters to the Editors of Newspapers, Suicide Contagion, Unused Drug Dangers, Vermont on September 9, 2014 | Comments Off on Letter to the Burlington Free Press: Assisted Suicide Law is Not Working, Should Be Repealed

Somehow we missed this good letter when it appeared in the Burlington Free Press last June. How can anyone say the law is working well when it hasn’t been used at all and when we don’t know where the lethal drugs that were obtained but not ingested are?  Unlike some earlier versions of the bill […]

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A Wrongful Death is a Wrongful Death: Letter in the Burlington Free Press

Posted in Uncategorized, Vermont on July 30, 2014 | Comments Off on A Wrongful Death is a Wrongful Death: Letter in the Burlington Free Press

The Burlington Free Press today published the following excellent letter calling for the repeal of Act 39, the assisted suicide law.  Unfortunately there is also an article on the opinion page in favor of assisted suicide.  The link to the letter is http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/opinion/comment-debate/2014/07/30/repeal-physician-assisted-suicide-now/13334997/.  The link to the pro assisted article is http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/opinion/comment-debate/2014/07/30/people-end-life-choice/13335007/. Comments are urgently […]

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CT Assisted Suicide Hearing #5

Posted in Other States, Uncategorized on March 29, 2014 | Comments Off on CT Assisted Suicide Hearing #5

Here are the rest of my notes on the CT Hearing for HB 5326 the Assisted Suicide bill. (The video by CTN of the whole hearing is located here) Judith Passmore “I am worth of the same mercy as a dog” that gets put down. Senator Joe Markley With His friend Cathy Ludlim  “Strong opposition” The […]

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Alex Schadenberg’s Response to the Charge that We Who Oppose Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia are Playing on People’s Irrational Fears

Posted in Letters to the Editors of Newspapers, Other Countries on August 13, 2013 | Comments Off on Alex Schadenberg’s Response to the Charge that We Who Oppose Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia are Playing on People’s Irrational Fears

The proponents of assisted suicide and euthanasia like to denigrate the concerns of we who are opposed by saying they irrational.  Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia was obviously fed up when he wrote this letter to the Windsor (Ontario) Star.  We feel the same way he does, and we love this letter. <http://www.windsorstar.com/Howling+over+assisted+death/8781467/story.html>http://www.windsorstar.com/Howling+over+assisted+death/8781467/story.html ‘Howling’ over […]

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An Open Letter to Governor Pete Shumlin, published in the Burlington Free Press

Posted in Vermont on March 28, 2013 | Comments Off on An Open Letter to Governor Pete Shumlin, published in the Burlington Free Press

  The letter in italics below appeared in the March 25 issue of the Burlington Free Press and can be read online at http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013303260001. Better way to show compassion Dear Gov. Shumlin, I am an 85-year-old Democrat who applauded your election and has approved of all you have done. However, I must question your reported […]

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