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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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Caring is the Key to True Choice and True Dignity in Living or Dying

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An article in the September 3 2011 issue of the NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/opinion/when-doctors-become-patients.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print), while not directly about assisted suicide, is relevant to it in showing how the responses of caregivers influence the decisions and lives of those coping with catastrophic illness.   The … [Read more...] about Caring is the Key to True Choice and True Dignity in Living or Dying

Vermont: How Can a State with a Particularly Poor Record of Investigating Adult Abuse Complaints Even Consider Legalizing Assisted Suicide?

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According to an article posted at http://vtdigger.org/2011/08/07/abused-vulnerable-adults/,  "The state is struggling to investigate complaints of elder abuse. A backlog of 261 cases remains open.” Some of these cases, according to the article, are more than six months old. Vermont is the slowest state in the nation to respond to reports of adult abuse. Furthermore, in 2009, … [Read more...] about Vermont: How Can a State with a Particularly Poor Record of Investigating Adult Abuse Complaints Even Consider Legalizing Assisted Suicide?

Please Vote NO in Two Assisted Suicide Polls

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We were just alerted of two assisted suicide polls from Alex Schadenberg at the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition:   Please vote NO to assisted suicide. The question is: Do you support physician assisted suicide/euthanasia?  You will find the poll by going to: http://www.theunion.com/ and scrolling down.   If you have not voted on this poll yet, please also … [Read more...] about Please Vote NO in Two Assisted Suicide Polls

As Long As We Stay Active in Our Communities and Make Sure Legislators Know that Vermonters Overwhelmingly Oppose Physician-Assisted Death, We Can Keep It From Becoming Legal in Vermont.

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The article in parentheses below appeared in the Burlington Free Press on August 16. We need to pay attention.  Watch this site in early September for alerts.   Physician-assisted death in Vermont in 2012? 1:12 PM Tue., August 16, 2011 | Permalink By Terri Hallenbeck   Last week at his news conference, Gov. Peter Shumlin indicated legislation to … [Read more...] about As Long As We Stay Active in Our Communities and Make Sure Legislators Know that Vermonters Overwhelmingly Oppose Physician-Assisted Death, We Can Keep It From Becoming Legal in Vermont.