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A New Method of Doctor-Assisted Suicide: Evisceration of the Living for Organ Donation

Posted in Choice Becomes "Duty" to Die, Medical Power, Uncategorized on March 25, 2015 | Comments Off

Health April 2015 As They Lay Dying Two doctors say it’s far too hard for terminal patients to donate their organs. Joshua Mezrich and Joseph Scalea Mar 16 2015, 8:25 PM ET http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/as-they-lay-dying/386273/ Thanks to Alex Schadenberg and Wesley Smith for pointing out an article in the Atlantic advocating a “right” for patients to decline […]

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Ezekiel Emanuel’s Latest Rant

Posted in Choice Becomes "Duty" to Die, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Disability Rights Groups' Opposition, Elder Abuse, Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Two Sides of the Same Coin, Medical Opinions, Medical Power, Rationing on October 7, 2014 | Comments Off

Ezekiel Emanuel has spent his life building an impressive resume and now, at age 56, he wants the world to know that by 75 he plans to stop working so hard. In fact, he says that if he is still alive at 75, his master plan is to “stop all medical treatment” with the goal […]

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A Good Article from Canada

Posted in Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Two Sides of the Same Coin, Medical Power, Rejections of Assisted Suicide in Other Countries on October 22, 2013 | Comments Off

Thanks to Massachusetts Second Thoughts for sharing this very good article: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/21/court_stays_off_euthanasias_slippery_slope_dimanno.html. Some will object to its conflation of euthanasia and assisted suicide.  We think it is correct to do so; these two cannot be separated.  Once doctors prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to someone, there are no provisions in any of the assisted […]

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Why is Harry Chen Opposed to Patients Knowing which Health Care Providers Oppose Assisted Suicide?

Posted in Choice Becomes "Duty" to Die, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, Medical Power, Palliative Care, Slippery Slope, Uncategorized on May 22, 2013 | Comments Off

In response to a question regarding True Dignity’s proposal to develop a registry of “safe” health care providers and institutions, Vermont Commissioner of Health Harry Chen said one of the potential “silver linings” of S.77 is that it will spur conversations between patients and doctors about end-of-life decisions, and a “safe doctors” registry could discourage […]

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Doctors and nurses already misuse or abuse the power they have. The stakes are too high to consider expanding their power by legalizing assisted-suicide.

Posted in Damage to Family, Medical Power, Other States on March 17, 2013 | Comments Off

From the Great Falls (Montana) Tribune: ” I support House Bill 505, which clearly states that assisted suicide is not legal” http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20130313/OPINION/303130037/On-our-minds-Fires-suicide-bill-breweries My husband, Dr. James E. Mungas, was a respected physician and surgeon here in Great Falls. He developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and I took care of him. His mind was clear and thought […]

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