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.

Vermont

Kill the bill, not the citizens

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This was in yesterday's Rutland Herald: http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130131/OPINION02/701319973/0/SEARCH?template=printart Kill the bill, not the citizens I first encountered “death with dignity,” more appropriately termed physician-assisted suicide, legislation as a high school intern in the Vermont Statehouse and to this day remain … [Read more...] about Kill the bill, not the citizens

The Act is Suicide

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On January 30, the Burlington Free Press Called on Vermonters to stop using euphemisms and call assisted suicide what it really is: suicide. Here’s a quote: "In some ways, the death with dignity legislation is an attempt to place a veneer of medical legitimacy on suicide to ease our conscience about something for which we harbor grave doubts.” Read the whole editorial … [Read more...] about The Act is Suicide

More from Oregon Physician Charles Bentz’s Testimony before the Vermont Senate Health and Welfare Committee

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In yesterday’s post we forgot to say that the Oregon physician who testified against the bill, Charles Bentz, told the committee that since Oregon legalized assisted suicide, his office constantly gets calls from patients asking whether its doctors write the lethal prescriptions.  These are not from people wanting the poison.  Those normally call the advocacy group Compassion … [Read more...] about More from Oregon Physician Charles Bentz’s Testimony before the Vermont Senate Health and Welfare Committee