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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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State Can’t Oversee Doctor-Assisted Suicide: A Letter to the Editor of the Burlington Free Press

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In a state where there are some 300-plus uninvestigated cases of abuse of the vulnerable, I simply cannot believe that Gov. Peter Shumlin, House Speaker Shap Smith and Rep. Ann Pugh, D-South Burlington, can even contemplate pushing a bill to help the terminally ill kill themselves! Curiously they are pushing doctor-prescribed death in the name of "compassionate care." A … [Read more...] about State Can’t Oversee Doctor-Assisted Suicide: A Letter to the Editor of the Burlington Free Press

Wesley Smith: Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Activists’ Hunger for Death is Insatiable

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We have written numerous times about the continuing push in Oregon and Washington to eliminate regulations and broaden the category of those eligible for assisted suicide. On his Second Hand Smoke blog today, bioethicist Wesley Smith offers a terrible Google translation of a petition by Belgian activists to make minors eligible for euthanasia and to require all hospitals and … [Read more...] about Wesley Smith: Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Activists’ Hunger for Death is Insatiable

Suicide is on the Rise in Washington State

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Suicide is on the Rise in Washington State   The number of suicides appears to be rising in Washington State, which legalized assisted suicide in 2008. If the reports represent the beginning of a trend, Washington will be exhibiting the same correlation between legal assisted suicide and other suicides as Oregon, the only other US state with legal assisted suicide. In … [Read more...] about Suicide is on the Rise in Washington State

Don’t Make Oregon’s Mistake in Vermont: an Oregon Doctor’s Excellent Letter to the Bennington Banner

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Don’t make Oregon’s mistake on assisted suicide Posted: 10/09/2011 09:32:49 PM EDT Sunday October 9, 2011 I am a doctor in Oregon where physician-assisted suicide is legal. Dr. Richard Guerrero’s letter justifies his support of assisted suicide with a discussion of physical pain (Sept. 30). In Oregon, there has never been a documented case of assisted suicide used … [Read more...] about Don’t Make Oregon’s Mistake in Vermont: an Oregon Doctor’s Excellent Letter to the Bennington Banner