True Dignity

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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If You Don’t Believe in the Slippery Slope, You Will after Reading the Article Below

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  Kathy Hamlon of the Patients' Rights Council found this article, published November 16, 2011  in The Olympian.  Three years after legalization of assisted suicide in Washington, proponents already want to expand it to people who are not terminally ill.  The author recognizes that abuse of what he calls "voluntary euthanasia" is possible, but asks: ...does the chance … [Read more...] about If You Don’t Believe in the Slippery Slope, You Will after Reading the Article Below

Vermont Governor Shumlin’s Contradictory Statements on the Reasons He Thinks People Need Assistance in Suicide

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“Death with Dignity is a way to give people with terminal diseases who know that their life is going to end in the next three or four weeks a choice of suffering in great pain, or finding a way to end that suffering.” Governor Peter Shumlin in an August 11, 2011 press … [Read more...] about Vermont Governor Shumlin’s Contradictory Statements on the Reasons He Thinks People Need Assistance in Suicide

A Fair Article from the Vermont Standard of Woodstock

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http://www.thevermontstandard.com/2011/11/%E2%80%98death-with-dignity%E2%80%99-bill-in-spotlight-in-vermont/ The Vermont Standard ‘Death With Dignity’ Bill In Spotlight In Vermont November 16, 2011 By Laura Power Special To The Standard This is the first part of a series on the issues surrounding House Bill H.274. MONTPELIER ¬ During this upcoming winter or … [Read more...] about A Fair Article from the Vermont Standard of Woodstock

Top Palliative Care Doctor tells Canadian Court most doctors he knows want to keep assisted-suicide prohibition

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Read the original article copied in italics below at the following link:  http://www.theprovince.com/news/official+says+most+doctors+knows+want+keep+assisted+suicide+prohibition/5714965/story.html#ixzz1doyJqwUd.   Note that one of the comments asserts that doctors want to keep patients alive to get their fees. We see this as further proof of the cost-cutting mindset behind the … [Read more...] about Top Palliative Care Doctor tells Canadian Court most doctors he knows want to keep assisted-suicide prohibition