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Suicide is never death with dignity, and assisted suicide legislation threatens true patient choices at the end of life.

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Social Justice, Doctor Assisted Suicide Don’t Mix

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The Following Op-ed piece is from today's issue of the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press Tue, Sep 6, 2011 | Updated: 8:24 AM My Turn: Social justice, doctor assisted suicide don't mix Pete Gummere September 6, 2011 I recently came across a copy of a Free Press editorial from back on April 17 ("Assisted suicide bill fails transparency test"). In that piece, the Free … [Read more...] about Social Justice, Doctor Assisted Suicide Don’t Mix

Here’s a thought: what if, when you are 70, a bit frail, a bit needy, someone else decides that life would be a lot easier without you around? They can let you know, subtly, quietly, that their happiness and fortune would benefit a great deal from your speedy exit. They can pull at your heart strings and leave you thinking that, really, you owe them this. That’s when legalising assisted suicide turns tricky: because “suicide” in these cases is a euphemism. It’s murder.

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This article, in the Sept. 5 edition of the London Daily Telegraph, is a reminder of the social forces we are fighting and of why we fight them. Britain has legalised assisted suicide when no one was looking Cristina Odone http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100103167/britain-has-legalised-assisted-suicide-when-no-one-was-looking/ I read the splash in … [Read more...] about Here’s a thought: what if, when you are 70, a bit frail, a bit needy, someone else decides that life would be a lot easier without you around? They can let you know, subtly, quietly, that their happiness and fortune would benefit a great deal from your speedy exit. They can pull at your heart strings and leave you thinking that, really, you owe them this. That’s when legalising assisted suicide turns tricky: because “suicide” in these cases is a euphemism. It’s murder.

Caring is the Key to True Choice and True Dignity in Living or Dying

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An article in the September 3 2011 issue of the NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/opinion/when-doctors-become-patients.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print), while not directly about assisted suicide, is relevant to it in showing how the responses of caregivers influence the decisions and lives of those coping with catastrophic illness.   The … [Read more...] about Caring is the Key to True Choice and True Dignity in Living or Dying

Vermont: How Can a State with a Particularly Poor Record of Investigating Adult Abuse Complaints Even Consider Legalizing Assisted Suicide?

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According to an article posted at http://vtdigger.org/2011/08/07/abused-vulnerable-adults/,  "The state is struggling to investigate complaints of elder abuse. A backlog of 261 cases remains open.” Some of these cases, according to the article, are more than six months old. Vermont is the slowest state in the nation to respond to reports of adult abuse. Furthermore, in 2009, … [Read more...] about Vermont: How Can a State with a Particularly Poor Record of Investigating Adult Abuse Complaints Even Consider Legalizing Assisted Suicide?