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Calls and Emails Still Needed to NJ Senators, with a Link to an Excellent Source for Preparing for Them

Posted in Cheapness of Assisted Suicide, Chronic Diseases Rendered Terminal by Non-treatment, Elder Abuse, New Jersey, Rationing, Reasons to Oppose, Relatives Won't Know, Richard Doerflinger on January 6, 2015 | Comments Off

The NJ Senate could vote on the assisted suicide bill already passed by that state’s Assembly as early as January 13, 2015. We urge people__especially people from NJ, but anyone from any state who believes the spread of assisted suicide is dangerous public policy and a risk to everyone, everywhere__to contact each Senator, politely asking […]

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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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Whose Choice is It? Oregon Rations End of Life Care

Posted in Rationing on August 10, 2013 | Comments Off

In 2008, when Oregonian cancer patients Barbara Wagner and Randy Stroup received letters from the state Medicaid program denying payment for prescribed and wanted chemotherapy  and listing assisted suicide among the alternatives that would be covered,  they were devastated  at being condemned to premature deaths and angry at the infringement on their personal autonomy (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5517492&page=1).  […]

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