True Dignity

Citizens Against Assisted Suicide

Ad example

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

Administrators

Still Think Assisted Suicide Is No Threat to People with Disabilities? Read This.

by

A family in Canada has received an anonymous letter urging it to euthanize its 13 year old autistic child. Thanks to Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for posting this one on his blog page (http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2013/08/canadian-family-sent-letter-telling.html).  You can click on the letter to enlarge and read it. Proponents of … [Read more...] about Still Think Assisted Suicide Is No Threat to People with Disabilities? Read This.

Alex Schadenberg’s Response to the Charge that We Who Oppose Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia are Playing on People’s Irrational Fears

by

The proponents of assisted suicide and euthanasia like to denigrate the concerns of we who are opposed by saying they irrational.  Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia was obviously fed up when he wrote this letter to the Windsor (Ontario) Star.  We feel the same way he does, and we love this … [Read more...] about Alex Schadenberg’s Response to the Charge that We Who Oppose Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia are Playing on People’s Irrational Fears

Whose Choice is It? Oregon Rations End of Life Care

by

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 … [Read more...] about Whose Choice is It? Oregon Rations End of Life Care

Lest We Forget that Assisted Suicide, Now Legal in Vermont, is Danger Thinly Disguised as Help, Diane Coleman Reminds Us.

by

The article in italics below appeared in the Star-Ledger, a New Jersey newspaper and can be read online at http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2013/07/the_dangerous_help_of_assisted.html.    The author, Diane Coleman is a disability rights activist.  She reminds us that several people in Oregon have died more than six months after receiving a prescription for a lethal dose of … [Read more...] about Lest We Forget that Assisted Suicide, Now Legal in Vermont, is Danger Thinly Disguised as Help, Diane Coleman Reminds Us.