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Suicide is never death with dignity, and assisted suicide legislation threatens true patient choices at the end of life.

Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia

Our Tax Dollars at Work: Prettifying Suicide and Ignoring the Vulnerable

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The Vermont Senate Health and Welfare Committee heard testimony on Wednesday on Act 39. The two questions being examined: “Is Act 39 working?” and “Should the sunset provisions in Act 39 be repealed?” Testimony was heard from a dozen people, nearly all of whom acknowledged that there are problems with the law, including the lack of documentation required, and the scarcity of … [Read more...] about Our Tax Dollars at Work: Prettifying Suicide and Ignoring the Vulnerable

Bad But Not Hopeless News From Canada: Good News from Colorado

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In a shocking unanimous decision yesterday, Canada's  Supreme Court overturned the long-standing countrywide ban on doctor assisted death.  The ruling applies to the whole country. Because the ruling did not, as far as we can glean from newspaper reports, require that the poison by which a person's life would be ended must be self administered, we are going to refer to what … [Read more...] about Bad But Not Hopeless News From Canada: Good News from Colorado

When Doctor-Assisted Death is Legal Supply Creates Demand

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A December 10, 2014 posting by True Dignity guest author W. Carol Cleigh showed how the practice of assisted suicide has expanded over the sixteen years since it was legalized in Oregon (https://www.truedignity.org/whats-going-oregon/). The French journal LePoint recently interviewed Etienne Montero, dean of the law school at Belgium’s University of Namur and author of … [Read more...] about When Doctor-Assisted Death is Legal Supply Creates Demand