Oregon Radio Station KZTV is reporting that a woman has been charged with "criminal mistreatment and aggravated theft" in a case involving assisted suicide. The state alleges that Tami Sawyer "took custody of Thomas Middleton, a dependent or elderly person, for the purpose of fraud." Middleton, who had ALS, had moved into the home of Sawyer, a real estate broker, after … [Read more...] about Woman Arrested for Elder Financial Abuse in Oregon Assisted Suicide Case
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A Vermonter Lays Out the Reasons Why Our State Should Reject the Legalization of Assisted Suicide
Just today, we found the fine article below on the website of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet (http://www.notdeadyet.org/2013/02/vermont-great-article-by-activist-rosemarie-jackowski-on-assisted-suicide.html. How did we miss it before? It is by a Vermont author, Rosemary Jackowski, and it does a great job of laying out the reasons why our state should reject the … [Read more...] about A Vermonter Lays Out the Reasons Why Our State Should Reject the Legalization of Assisted Suicide
The Guardian, a progressive, left-leaning newspaper in England, reported recently that Japan’s Minister of Finance thinks elderly people should “hurry up and die”, to relieve pressure on the government to pay for their medical care: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese Despite the pro-suicide camp's tactics of promoting this legislation in … [Read more...] about
Oregon Lawyer’s Letter to the Editor about Why Assisted Suicide Laws Are an Invitation to Murder
We have written before about how proponents of assisted suicide claim many people who obtain the lethal prescriptions there never use them. They even assert that some people live longer once they know they have the means to end their lives if they find them unbearable. If there assertions are true, it is shocking that we will never know how many patients who did die under the … [Read more...] about Oregon Lawyer’s Letter to the Editor about Why Assisted Suicide Laws Are an Invitation to Murder
Users of Assisted Suicide are Seniors with Money: Not Surprising or Reassuring
The article below was posted today on the website Mass against Assisted Suicide http://www.massagainstassistedsuicide.org/). It is attorney Margaret Dore’s response to Sunday’s New York Times article on assisted suicide in Oregon. She does not find it at all surprising (or reassuring) that those who die from assisted suicide are affluent and … [Read more...] about Users of Assisted Suicide are Seniors with Money: Not Surprising or Reassuring