The Bennington Banner published a fair article about the Manchester forum sponsored by the proponents of assisted suicide in Vermont. It also published a great picture of a room full of people wearing yellow stickers. You cannot read the stickers in the picture, but we are happy to tell you that they said, "I Oppose Physician Assisted Suicide." Of the 100 people there, we … [Read more...] about Opponents of Assisted Suicide Greatly Outnumbered Proponents at This Week’s Vermont Public Forums
Don't Forget: This is an Important Week to Fight Assisted Suicide in Vermont! Thursday, March 3: 9 AM: Tune in to the Mark Johnson Show on WDEV Radio: FM 96.1/ AM 550 or listen live at www.markjohnsonshow.net. Call in and express your opposition to assisted suicide. 1. It will lead to elder abuse. 2. In Oregon it has been associated with an increase in suicides … [Read more...] about
Two Kinds of Dying: Which Will We Choose for Vermont?
On the day of Lovelle Svart’s death, she threw a party at which she danced the polka with her friends, including George Eighmey, an Oregon assisted suicide activist and one of the two speakers at the pro-assisted suicide meetings being held in Vermont this week. After dancing with Lavelle, Eighmey, who has presided at many suicides, then went with her and others into her … [Read more...] about Two Kinds of Dying: Which Will We Choose for Vermont?
Ponder this, our state at risk: Rutland Herald, Feb. 13, 2011
When I tell a stranger I'm from Vermont, inevitably a smile comes over their face. And the typical reaction, is "how wonderful; what a great state." Their reaction is likely driven by Vermont's Norman Rockwell image. It is a state filled with natural beauty and a wholesome hearty people who care deeply for their own. For the past four years, Vermont has been recognized as … [Read more...] about Ponder this, our state at risk: Rutland Herald, Feb. 13, 2011
Excellent Testimony Helped Defeat Assisted Suicide in Montana: Watch the Video on YouTube
Bradley Williams' short and pointed testimony in the Montana Senate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYfQEjhbUVI) helped defeat a bill to legalize assisted suicide there. Like the defeated Montana assisted suicide bill, the Vermont bill puts the elderly and disabled in danger of abuse. Williams points out that all the so-called safeguards in the bill only deal with requests … [Read more...] about Excellent Testimony Helped Defeat Assisted Suicide in Montana: Watch the Video on YouTube