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.

Commentary

People Supporting Assisted Suicide Laws Often Believe They Require Doctors to Screen All Patients for Depression: They Do Not

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It is well-known that the treatable mental illness of depression causes suicidal thoughts, so much so that such thoughts are considered an identifying characteristic of depression for diagnostic purposes (http://www.mental-health-today.com/dep/dsm.htm).   Advocates for assisted suicide are misinformed, and misinform others, when they assert that depressed people are … [Read more...] about People Supporting Assisted Suicide Laws Often Believe They Require Doctors to Screen All Patients for Depression: They Do Not

Remove the Euphemism And Assisted Suicide Is Homicide: Commentary from the Toronto Star

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http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/1212771 From the online site of the Toronto Star DiManno: B.C. assisted suicide ruling an alarming interpretation of Charter June 18, 2012 Rosie DiManno Remove the euphemism and assisted suicide is homicide. Justifiable? B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith thinks so, with an alarming landmark interpretation of the … [Read more...] about Remove the Euphemism And Assisted Suicide Is Homicide: Commentary from the Toronto Star

‘Death with Dignity’ Bill promises only indignity

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Below the line is an excellent article we somehow missed posting when it appeared in the Brattleboro Commons (http://www.commonsnews.org/site/site05/story.php?articleno=3197&page=1) in March 2011.  The points it makes are just as valid now as they were then.   Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg is a writer, a disability-rights activist, and the leader of the Southern Vermont … [Read more...] about ‘Death with Dignity’ Bill promises only indignity

An Factual Article and a Burlington Free Press Editorial on the Defeat of Assisted Suicide in the Vermont Senate

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We just got the new issue of the Patients Rights Council newsletter, with an excellent article about the defeat of the 10th attempt to legalize assisted suicide in our state. The Patients Rights Council article contains excerpts from the Burlington Free Press's April 13 editorial praising the defeat of assisted suicide on the grounds that it changes the doctor/patient … [Read more...] about An Factual Article and a Burlington Free Press Editorial on the Defeat of Assisted Suicide in the Vermont Senate

Letter to the Bennington Banner: Support Senator Sears on this issue (Killing Assisted Suicide)

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The letter below was published in today's Bennington Banner. We agree wholeheartedly with its call to support Senator Sears. True Dignity does not, however,  support the letter-writer’s call for a referendum on assisted suicide. That would set off a year of ferocious campaigning on an issue that a May 2011 Gallup's 2011 Values and Beliefs poll found to be "the most … [Read more...] about Letter to the Bennington Banner: Support Senator Sears on this issue (Killing Assisted Suicide)