John Kelly of the Massachusetts group of people with disabilities opposing assisted suicide does a wonderful job in this July 5 CNN interview. http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_mid#/video/health/2012/07/05/ctw-euthanasia-debate.cnn … [Read more...] about Why is it That People Who Are Not Disabled Receive Suicide Prevention Services, But Once Someone Comes Up with a Disability They’re Offered Encouragement in Dying?
What about the Right to Cry for Help?
Thanks to Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for calling our attention to this excellent article by a lawyer and disability rights activist. It appeared in the July 9 2012 issue of the Montreal Gazette … [Read more...] about What about the Right to Cry for Help?
Vermont Must Work to Prevent Suicide among All Age Groups, Not Just Teens
We have recently heard from several proponents of assisted suicide that concerns about possible suicide contagion in Oregon are unfounded because the youth suicide rate there has gone down. Here is a link to the latest report of the Oregon Health Division on suicide in that state: … [Read more...] about Vermont Must Work to Prevent Suicide among All Age Groups, Not Just Teens
People Supporting Assisted Suicide Laws Often Believe They Require Doctors to Screen All Patients for Depression: They Do Not
It is well-known that the treatable mental illness of depression causes suicidal thoughts, so much so that such thoughts are considered an identifying characteristic of depression for diagnostic purposes (http://www.mental-health-today.com/dep/dsm.htm). Advocates for assisted suicide are misinformed, and misinform others, when they assert that depressed people are … [Read more...] about People Supporting Assisted Suicide Laws Often Believe They Require Doctors to Screen All Patients for Depression: They Do Not
Canadian Doctor: “It is astounding that we are courting physician-assisted dying, something the ancient Greeks rejected over 2,500 years ago.”
Re: It’s Not Suicide, June 18. It is tragic that people with terminal illnesses, like Gloria Taylor, have concluded that physician-assisted death is the only way to relieve their suffering. Excellent palliative care is available in this country, so no one needs to fear dying in excruciating pain or indignity. Before Hippocrates, a physician was either a healer or … [Read more...] about Canadian Doctor: “It is astounding that we are courting physician-assisted dying, something the ancient Greeks rejected over 2,500 years ago.”