Somehow we missed this good letter when it appeared in the Burlington Free Press last June. How can anyone say the law is working well when it hasn't been used at all and when we don't know where the lethal drugs that were obtained but not ingested are? Unlike some earlier versions of the bill that were defeated, Act 39 does not make any provisions at all for safe disposal … [Read more...] about Letter to the Burlington Free Press: Assisted Suicide Law is Not Working, Should Be Repealed
Letters to the Editors of Newspapers
Alex Schadenberg’s Response to the Charge that We Who Oppose Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia are Playing on People’s Irrational Fears
The proponents of assisted suicide and euthanasia like to denigrate the concerns of we who are opposed by saying they irrational. Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia was obviously fed up when he wrote this letter to the Windsor (Ontario) Star. We feel the same way he does, and we love this … [Read more...] about Alex Schadenberg’s Response to the Charge that We Who Oppose Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia are Playing on People’s Irrational Fears
Kill the bill, not the citizens
This was in yesterday's Rutland Herald: http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130131/OPINION02/701319973/0/SEARCH?template=printart Kill the bill, not the citizens I first encountered “death with dignity,” more appropriately termed physician-assisted suicide, legislation as a high school intern in the Vermont Statehouse and to this day remain … [Read more...] about Kill the bill, not the citizens
Doctors’ Beef with Physician Assisted Suicide Stems from Concern for Patients’ Welfare
The author of this letter to the Boston Globe is a physician who deals with aging patients and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. See her biographical information at the end of the letter. Read the letter online at http://articles.boston.com/2012-10-05/letters/34253724_1_patients-lethal-dose-lethal-medication. Doctors’ beef with Question 2 stems from fear … [Read more...] about Doctors’ Beef with Physician Assisted Suicide Stems from Concern for Patients’ Welfare
Letter to the Bennington Banner: Support Senator Sears on this issue (Killing Assisted Suicide)
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)