True Dignity board members spent the morning listening to testimony before the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. There were five witnesses, three in favor of assisted suicide and two opposed. George Eighmey, the assisted suicide activist from Oregon who has been in Vermont numerous times to tell us that the Oregon assisted suicide law has worked absolutely perfectly, … [Read more...] about Our Site is Back, so Here’s a Cautiously Optimistic Report on Today’s Hearings in Health and Welfare
Don’t Buy the Myth that Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law Has Been Free of Abuse
This week's hearings in the Vermont legislature will certainly feature claims that the Oregon assisted suicide ;aw is "safe", that it has been free from abuse over its 16 year existence. That is an assertion no one can make. Oregon conceals the data about individual deaths, citing "privacy" rights. Oregon's annual reports give only general statistics, and Oregon doctor … [Read more...] about Don’t Buy the Myth that Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law Has Been Free of Abuse
The Guardian, a progressive, left-leaning newspaper in England, reported recently that Japan’s Minister of Finance thinks elderly people should “hurry up and die”, to relieve pressure on the government to pay for their medical care: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese Despite the pro-suicide camp's tactics of promoting this legislation in … [Read more...] about
URGENT ALERT! PUBLIC HEARING ON ASSISTED SUICIDE LEGISLATION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29
There will be a PUBLIC HEARING Tuesday evening, January 29th On Proposed Legislation to Legalize Assisted Suicide in Vermont Place: House Chamber,Vermont State House in Montpelier, Vermont Time: from 5pm to 7pm We need to fill the Chamber with people who oppose this dangerous legislation! You will need to arrive early, get a sticker to wear to indicate your … [Read more...] about URGENT ALERT! PUBLIC HEARING ON ASSISTED SUICIDE LEGISLATION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29
Suicide Contagion among the Elderly?
In italics below is an excellent article by Australian anti-assisted suicide advocate Paul Russell. It suggests that the language being used to push legalization of assisted suicide worldwide may be behind a spate of recent murder suicides. So may the sympathetic reporting on these by the media. There is every reason to assume that what we know to be true about teen suicide … [Read more...] about Suicide Contagion among the Elderly?