Remember the cancer-stricken Lockerbie bomber who was sent home to Libya in 2009 because his Scottish doctors said he had only three months to live? He just died, almost three years later. The National Review article linked below uses his case and the case of a Massachusetts disability rights activist who was diagnosed with “terminal” ALS 50 years ago, as examples of the … [Read more...] about National Review: Elevating doctor-prescribed suicide to “treatment” puts patients at risk
Second Thoughts: I don’t see it as that far a distance from torturing autistic kids “for their own good” to killing disabled people because they will be “better off dead.”
Second Thoughts, the Massachusetts coalition of people with disabilities opposed to the legalization of assisted suicide, just posted a link on Facebook to a movement to oppose the use of electric shock on children with developmental disabilities and mental illness. True Dignity finds Second Thoughts's commentary to the link right on. Here it is, in italics below. We also … [Read more...] about Second Thoughts: I don’t see it as that far a distance from torturing autistic kids “for their own good” to killing disabled people because they will be “better off dead.”
The Head of the UK’s Royal College of General Practitioners Opposes “Assisted Dying”
Iona Heath, President of the UK’s Royal Society of General Practitioners, has written a strongly worded article opposing “assisted dying” in the British Medical Journal. Unfortunately, the article costs $30 on the Journal’s website: http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e3755.short. Dr. Heath’s opposition to legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia is based on “a … [Read more...] about The Head of the UK’s Royal College of General Practitioners Opposes “Assisted Dying”
Undertreatment Is As Big a Problem As Overtreatment: Deaths Result Because Doctors and Caregivers Think the Lives of Patients with Disabilities or Dementia Are Not Worth Living
It would be insanity to insert legal assisted suicide into a culture in which the lives are people with disabilities, especially those of the elderly suffering from dementia, are widely considered not worth living. Check out the following two articles. http://nymag.com/news/features/parent-health-care-2012-5/index6.html In this article the son of a mother who is old and … [Read more...] about Undertreatment Is As Big a Problem As Overtreatment: Deaths Result Because Doctors and Caregivers Think the Lives of Patients with Disabilities or Dementia Are Not Worth Living
Vermont State Senator Says the Legislature Wasted Precious Time on Failed Assisted Suicide Bill
The current (May 25) edition of the Manchester Journal contains an article in which two southern VT state Senators give their opinions on the 2012 session of the Vermont legislature. Only one of the two Senators, Robert Hartwell, A Bennington County Democrat, mentioned the assisted suicide bill. According to the article, he told the Journal that "there were a couple of … [Read more...] about Vermont State Senator Says the Legislature Wasted Precious Time on Failed Assisted Suicide Bill