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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From the Netherlands to Vermont: Patients Under Pressure to Die

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Around one in five patients who choose euthanasia in the Netherlands acts under pressure from family members, according to a leading expert on the ethics of assisted dying, as reported last week in Dutch News: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/07/pressure-on-patients-is-cause-for-concern-euthanasia-expert/ According to the report, Professor Theo Boer, who teaches … [Read more...] about From the Netherlands to Vermont: Patients Under Pressure to Die

Common Sense Prevails (Everywhere But Vermont)

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There has been a lot of good news this year (everywhere but Vermont, it seems) on the assisted suicide front. There has been widespread rejection of attempts to legalize doctor-prescribed death in multiple State legislatures, with California this week providing the most recent defeat. Evidently the “momentum” claimed by Compassion and Choices (aka The Hemlock Society) after … [Read more...] about Common Sense Prevails (Everywhere But Vermont)

Assisted Suicide may be dead in California

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It appears from news reports and press releases that the Assisted Suicide bill will not be presented to committee or to the floor. In a statement, the authors of Senate Bill 128, which would allow doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients, said they would not present it before the Assembly Health Committee on Tuesday. It was the second time in two weeks that … [Read more...] about Assisted Suicide may be dead in California