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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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Canadian Government Plans Euthanasia Exemption Appeal

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Our friends at the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition received a positive response to a request that the Canadian Government appeal the euthanasia exemption given to Gloria Taylor.  As you likely recall Gloria Taylor was granted a constitutional exemption to Canada's law against assisted suicide and euthanasia by Justice Lynn Smith in the Carter case.  That exemption was again … [Read more...] about Canadian Government Plans Euthanasia Exemption Appeal

Jack Kevorkian Comes to Town

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Thanks to Linda Ann Wheeler and Patricia Doherty for their Facebook posting about an excellent article opposing assisted suicide by Boston Globe columnist Tom Keane. Originally published in the Globe on Auguest 26, it can be read online at http://articles.boston.com/2012-08-26/opinion/33383823_1_suicide-jack-kevorkian-terminal-illness. The title is appropriate.  Though … [Read more...] about Jack Kevorkian Comes to Town

Letter to the Editor Questions Attorney General Candidate’s Stance on Assisted Suicide

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A Letter to the Editor in today's Burlington Free Press questions Vermont Attorney General Candidate, T.J. Donovan's, support of assisted suicide.  Brenda Pepin of Montpelier notes that Donovan has acknowledged his need to prosecute abuse against the elderly and the vulnerable, but then supports assisted suicide.  She poses the following question to Donovan, that makes clear … [Read more...] about Letter to the Editor Questions Attorney General Candidate’s Stance on Assisted Suicide

Users of Assisted Suicide are Seniors with Money: Not Surprising or Reassuring

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The article below was posted today on the website Mass against Assisted Suicide http://www.massagainstassistedsuicide.org/). It is attorney Margaret Dore’s response to Sunday’s New York Times article on assisted suicide in Oregon. She does not find it at all surprising (or reassuring) that those who die from assisted suicide are affluent and … [Read more...] about Users of Assisted Suicide are Seniors with Money: Not Surprising or Reassuring

Deconstructing the Myth that Wealth Protects against Pressure to Die from Assisted Suicide

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The August 13, 2012 edition of the New York Times contains a puff piece for assisted suicide that uses an anecdote about an Oregon physician to rehash the tattered argument that assisted suicide is safe because most of those who commit suicide where assistance is legal are affluent, insured, and well-educated. Because they could afford to pay for care, they are presumed not to … [Read more...] about Deconstructing the Myth that Wealth Protects against Pressure to Die from Assisted Suicide