Excellent News! This week committees in two state legislatures voted down legislation to legalize assisted suicide. The Health Committee of Hawaii’s Senate unanimously defeated a bill modeled, like the draft legislation being proposed in Vermont, on Oregon’s 1997 Death with Dignity Act. The committee chairman told the Honolulu Star Advertiser, “"After considering the … [Read more...] about Excellent News!
Suicide is Contagious
Bernier Mayo's experience as a teacher, a headmaster, and a school superintendent in Vermont makes him uniquely qualified to discuss teenaged suicide. In the article below he explains why he believes legal assisted suicide threatens our teenagers. Please also check our link to an article by well-known bioethicist Wesley Smith on the same topic. In My Opinion Doctor … [Read more...] about Suicide is Contagious
Two Observations on the 2010 Oregon Public Health Division Report on Assisted Suicide
The Oregon Public Health Division is required by law to submit an annual report on the implementation of the assisted suicide law in that state. Two observations from the analysis issued as a press release by Physicians for Compassionate Care, a group of Oregon doctors who oppose assisted suicide, clearly reveal the dangers of implementing the Oregon law, which is the model for … [Read more...] about Two Observations on the 2010 Oregon Public Health Division Report on Assisted Suicide
Draft 2011 Assisted Suicide Legislation Compared to 2009 Legislation
On January 18th, Patient Choices Vermont posted draft assisted suicide legislation, sponsored by Senator Jeanette White, to be introduced in the 2011 Vermont legislature. In a first round of analysis I have compared the drafted 2011 legislation to the 2009 S144 legislation. In a nutshell, the proposed 2011 legislation is very similar to the S144 bill from 2009. … [Read more...] about Draft 2011 Assisted Suicide Legislation Compared to 2009 Legislation
Prescribing Death is a Violation
The following article, printed in the RUTLAND HERALD on Jan. 23, 2011, is reprinted here by permission of the author, Lynne Caulfield, a registered nurse from Dummerston, VT. It is hard to believe that with all the pressing budget issues facing the 2011 Legislature, Gov. Peter Shumlin has made doctor-prescribed death one of his first priorities. … [Read more...] about Prescribing Death is a Violation