Phil Brown M.D. ER Director Central Vermont Medical Center Testimony before the 2012 Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee opposing passage of the Assisted Suicide Bill. YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/truedignityvt … [Read more...] about Video: Phil Brown M.D.- March 2012 Senate Testimony
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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
Let’s put this pet theory to sleep: We have suffered long enough the euthanasia lobby’s myth that society is kinder to animals than to humans.
Long ago, True Dignity published a similar article to this one, also be disability rights activist Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet. Doesn't everyone know that the real reason human beings put animals down is often that they have become inconvenient? Thanks again,Stephen. http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/lets_put_this_pet_theory_to_sleep Stephen Drake and … [Read more...] about Let’s put this pet theory to sleep: We have suffered long enough the euthanasia lobby’s myth that society is kinder to animals than to humans.
Oregon, Washington assisted suicide laws include no protections for patients: neither do any assisted suicide laws that have been proposed in other states
The article below appeared in the online edition of the Montana newspaper, The Missoulian, on December 31, 2012(http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/mailbag/oregon-washington-assisted-suicide-laws-include-no-protections-for-patients/article_074c4378-507b-11e2-8348-001a4bcf887a.html). Thanks again to Washington attorney Margaret Dore. With regard to the two intemperate … [Read more...] about Oregon, Washington assisted suicide laws include no protections for patients: neither do any assisted suicide laws that have been proposed in other states
Why Suicides (Assisted or Not) Are More Common in Richer Neighborhoods
http://business.time.com/2012/11/08/why-suicides-are-more-common-in-richer-neighborhoods/ The study on which the article linked above reports found that there is a higher rate of suicide in richer neighborhoods, due to the human tendency to compare one’s own situation with that of one’s neighbors. People committing suicide in wealthy neighborhoods tend to be people at the … [Read more...] about Why Suicides (Assisted or Not) Are More Common in Richer Neighborhoods