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Kill the bill, not the citizens

Posted in Letters to the Editors of Newspapers, Vermont on February 1, 2013 | Comments Off

This was in yesterday’s Rutland Herald: http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130131/OPINION02/701319973/0/SEARCH?template=printart Kill the bill, not the citizens I first encountered “death with dignity,” more appropriately termed physician-assisted suicide, legislation as a high school intern in the Vermont Statehouse and to this day remain strongly opposed to the legislative initiative. I explained to legislators at the time that I have […]

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Don’t Buy the Myth that Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law Has Been Free of Abuse

Posted in Murder Invitation, Oregon on January 28, 2013 | Comments Off

This week’s hearings in the Vermont legislature will certainly feature claims that the Oregon assisted suicide ;aw is “safe”, that it has been free from abuse over its 16 year existence.  That is an assertion no one can make.  Oregon conceals the data about individual deaths, citing “privacy” rights.  Oregon’s annual reports give only general […]

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Doctors’ Beef with Physician Assisted Suicide Stems from Concern for Patients’ Welfare

Posted in Damage to Family, Letters to the Editors of Newspapers, Medical Opinions, Other States on October 9, 2012 | Comments Off

The author of this letter to the Boston Globe  is a physician who deals with aging patients and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. See her biographical information at the end of the letter.  Read the letter online at http://articles.boston.com/2012-10-05/letters/34253724_1_patients-lethal-dose-lethal-medication. Doctors’ beef with Question 2 stems from fear for patients’ welfare   October 05, […]

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Where Assisted Suicide Legal, There is Pressure to Die: a Letter from Oregon

Posted in Commentary, Oregon, Other States, True Dignity on July 16, 2012 | Comments Off

The letter in italics below was published in the Hawaii Free Press on Feb 15, 2011. It provides further evidence of our contention that people with disabilities are not the only people whose lives are devalued. The lives of people with serious illness and people with old age are also considered not worth living by […]

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Canadian Doctor: “It is astounding that we are courting physician-assisted dying, something the ancient Greeks rejected over 2,500 years ago.”

Posted in Medical Opinions, Other Countries on June 22, 2012 | Comments Off

Re: It’s Not Suicide, June 18.   It is tragic that people with terminal illnesses, like Gloria Taylor, have concluded that physician-assisted death is the only way to relieve their suffering. Excellent palliative care is available in this country, so no one needs to fear dying in excruciating pain or indignity. Before Hippocrates, a physician […]

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Massachusetts Lawyer with “Front Line Experience” Tells Why He Opposes Legalizing Assisted Suicide

Posted in Legal Opinions, Other States on May 19, 2012 | Comments Off

Back in March, a physician who had been an advocate for assisted suicide in Oregon took his own life. An Associated Press story on the doctor’s suicide elicited the following letter to the editor of the Boston Globe . The author is a Massachusetts lawyer whose opposition to legal assisted suicide comes from his experience […]

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Letter to the Bennington Banner: Support Senator Sears on this issue (Killing Assisted Suicide)

Posted in Commentary, Letters to the Editors of Newspapers, True Dignity, Vermont on March 26, 2012 | Comments Off

The letter below was published in today’s Bennington Banner. We agree wholeheartedly with its call to support Senator Sears. True Dignity does not, however,  support the letter-writer’s call for a referendum on assisted suicide. That would set off a year of ferocious campaigning on an issue that a May 2011 Gallup’s 2011 Values and Beliefs […]

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