Physician Assisted Suicide and Mental Health Julia Roberts, LCMHC As a mental health counselor, I encounter many individuals in their most hopeless and vulnerable moments. There is rarely a week that goes by that one of my clients does not talk to me about contemplating suicide. It causes great concern for me to consider how physician-assisted suicide (PAS) will affect both … [Read more...] about A Vermont Mental Health Counselor’s Perspective on Assisted Suicide
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Great Letter from the Times Argus of Barre, VT, Published March 5
Article published Mar 5, 2011 Respect doctors’ stance on law I find it difficult to understand how the Vermont Legislature has the audacity to again consider legislation that intends to have doctors prescribe lethal amounts of drugs. Do they not remember that the Vermont Medical Society was very clear in its position during the last attempt at making this law? The medical … [Read more...] about Great Letter from the Times Argus of Barre, VT, Published March 5
Opponents of Assisted Suicide Greatly Outnumbered Proponents at This Week’s Vermont Public Forums
The Bennington Banner published a fair article about the Manchester forum sponsored by the proponents of assisted suicide in Vermont. It also published a great picture of a room full of people wearing yellow stickers. You cannot read the stickers in the picture, but we are happy to tell you that they said, "I Oppose Physician Assisted Suicide." Of the 100 people there, we … [Read more...] about Opponents of Assisted Suicide Greatly Outnumbered Proponents at This Week’s Vermont Public Forums
Don't Forget: This is an Important Week to Fight Assisted Suicide in Vermont! Thursday, March 3: 9 AM: Tune in to the Mark Johnson Show on WDEV Radio: FM 96.1/ AM 550 or listen live at www.markjohnsonshow.net. Call in and express your opposition to assisted suicide. 1. It will lead to elder abuse. 2. In Oregon it has been associated with an increase in suicides … [Read more...] about
Two Kinds of Dying: Which Will We Choose for Vermont?
On the day of Lovelle Svart’s death, she threw a party at which she danced the polka with her friends, including George Eighmey, an Oregon assisted suicide activist and one of the two speakers at the pro-assisted suicide meetings being held in Vermont this week. After dancing with Lavelle, Eighmey, who has presided at many suicides, then went with her and others into her … [Read more...] about Two Kinds of Dying: Which Will We Choose for Vermont?