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Letter to the Editor: On physician-assisted suicide http://dailyfreepress.com/2012/10/20/letter-to-the-editor-on-physician-assisted-suicide/ Written by Mary Louise C. Ashur MD Associate Professor, Health Services, School of Public Health at BU School of Medicine Clinical Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (617) 696-7601 mashur@bidmc.harvard.edu Published … [Read more...] about Another Harvard Medical School Professor Opposes Legalizing Assisted Suicide in Massachusetts

Thanks to the Massachusetts anti-assisted suicide group, Second Thoughts, for posting the article we have copied below the line. Written by the physician director of palliative care at Dartmouth and published in The Atlantic, it can be read online at this … [Read more...] about Physician Assisted Suicide is Not Progressive

The Washington Post has an article today called, "Euthanasia Was the Right Choice for My Wife" http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/euthanasia-was-the-right-decision-for-my-wife/2012/10/22/1b355e96-0bd5-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_story_1.html).   Written by a man from the Netherlands, where assisted suicide is legal, it sees euthanasia through the … [Read more...] about The Sheer Awfulness of Euthanasia

Clicking on this link will lead to a great sound clip from a Boston call-in talk show. http://soundcloud.com/thelarslarsonshow/caller-armondo-on-assisted … [Read more...] about A Boston Radio Host’s Trenchant Rebuttal of the “It’s My Choice” Argument

An article in the UK newspaper The Telegraph reports on a survey of members of the British House of Commons conducted by Care Not Killing, a group opposing legalization of assisted suicide (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9543581/Recession-strengthens-case-against-assisted-suicide-MPs-say.html).  The poll found that 62% of the MPs oppose legalization.   An … [Read more...] about The British Parliament Will Not Legalize Assisted Suicide: MPs’ Reason_Pressure_ Just as Valid in the US