True Dignity

Citizens Against Assisted Suicide

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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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The Article Margaret Battin Admitted in Yesterday’s Testimony Had Challenged Her Study’s Findings That No Groups in Oregon Are Particularly Vulnerable to Being Coerced into Assisted Suicide

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Yesterday’s testimony before the Health and Welfare and Judiciary Committees ended with Margaret Battin, a philosopher from the University of Utah who concluded in a 2007 study that “vulnerable groups” had not been harmed by the Oregon law or by the legality of assisted suicide and euthanasia in the Netherlands.  The assisted suicide lobby has been touting that study ever since … [Read more...] about The Article Margaret Battin Admitted in Yesterday’s Testimony Had Challenged Her Study’s Findings That No Groups in Oregon Are Particularly Vulnerable to Being Coerced into Assisted Suicide

Kill the bill, not the citizens

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This was in yesterday's Rutland Herald: http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130131/OPINION02/701319973/0/SEARCH?template=printart Kill the bill, not the citizens I first encountered “death with dignity,” more appropriately termed physician-assisted suicide, legislation as a high school intern in the Vermont Statehouse and to this day remain … [Read more...] about Kill the bill, not the citizens

Testimony of Ira Byock of Dartmouth Hitchcock’s Palliative Care Department

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Thanks to Steven Drake and Alex Schadenberg for posting Dr. Byock's written testimony.  We were waiting for a cd and will post the oral testimony as soon as we can, but this sounds like what he said.  He was wonderful.  It's too bad the members of the Health and Welfare Committee had their minds made up before hearing anyone.  Here's a link to the … [Read more...] about Testimony of Ira Byock of Dartmouth Hitchcock’s Palliative Care Department

Unbelievable: the Bill the Committee Passed is Worse than the First Version

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Here's a link to the Burlington Free Press News Story: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130201/NEWS03/302010027/Doctor-assisted-suicide-measure-backed-by-Vermont-Senate-committee?odyssey=mod|. And here's what the Free Press had to say about the bill, which is still not available for the public to read and which still has no number: The Health & Welfare … [Read more...] about Unbelievable: the Bill the Committee Passed is Worse than the First Version

Assisted Suicide Passes in the Health and Welfare PLEASE Call Your Senators Now and Plan to Be in the State House Next Week.

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The assisted suicide bill was just voted out of the Health and Welfare Committee, with a 5-0 affirmative vote. The Bill reaches the Senate floor today and will then be sent to the Judiciary Committee for testimony next week. It is not too late to stop this, but it is critical that everyone calls their Senators over the weekend.  Let us know what they tell you by emailing … [Read more...] about Assisted Suicide Passes in the Health and Welfare PLEASE Call Your Senators Now and Plan to Be in the State House Next Week.