This poll seems to have been up for a while, but we just succeeding in voting in it. Please vote NO, and ask your friends to do the same. Right now, we are losing. Let's change that. http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/poll/2013-05-20/7117084/results?1370360603737 … [Read more...] about ALERT: Burlington Free Press Poll on Vermont Assisted Suicide Bill
Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Advocate, Phillip Nitschke: “There Will Be Casualties.”
The article linked here is tentatively supportive of euthanasia and assisted suicide under certain circumstances (http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/david-penberthy-a-holiday-to-die-for-with-dr-phil/story-e6freabc-1226655125931). True Dignity adamantly disagrees with the author’s supposition that there is ever a "need" for the legalization of assisted suicide or … [Read more...] about Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Advocate, Phillip Nitschke: “There Will Be Casualties.”
Wonderful, Wonderful News: Maine House Rejects Assisted Suicide Bill
It appears that Vermont is an outlier, not at all the first of a series of dice to topple, as the supporters of the assisted suicide/euthanasia "movement" had hoped. The Maine House has defeated an assisted suicide bill by a wide margin. Here's a link to Alex Schadenberg's news piece. http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2013/05/maine-house-overwhelmingly-rejects.html … [Read more...] about Wonderful, Wonderful News: Maine House Rejects Assisted Suicide Bill
Euthanasia for the mentally ill.
In the article below about the suicide of a dementia patient at the Swiss Dignitas Clinic, a quote from retired physician Michael Irwin, a proponent of euthanasia in the UK, reflects a growing popular perception that dementia equals loss of dignity. It is a chilling foreshadowing of what the future holds for those who receive diagnoses of dementia as the slippery slope from … [Read more...] about Euthanasia for the mentally ill.
More on the Slippery Slope of Legal Assisted Suicide
We had noticed that the theme of Wesley Smith's article below __that assisted suicide advocates believe it should be available to anyone who wants to commit suicide__seemed to inform many comments on the Ross Douthat article about suicide and loneliness that we posted on Sunday, May 19 (http://truedignityvt.org/?p=1017) and also to a followup article by Douthat that can be read … [Read more...] about More on the Slippery Slope of Legal Assisted Suicide