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 and “Should the sunset provisions in Act 39 be repealed?”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
Medical Opinions
No Words Minced in This Piece about Brittany Maynard’s and Compassion and Choices’ Attempt to Silence Opposition
Here's Wesley Smith, writing in The National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism A few quotes, with which True Dignity heartily agrees: The Brittany Maynard media explosion (my takes here and here) is an intense advocacy offensive–funded substantially by the culturally subversive George Soros through his support of Compassion and Choices–that is … [Read more...] about No Words Minced in This Piece about Brittany Maynard’s and Compassion and Choices’ Attempt to Silence Opposition
Disability Rights Groups Protest Attempts to Silence Dr. Ira Byock, Assisted Suicide Opponent
Dr. Ira Byock, professor at Dartmouth University's Geisel School of Medicine, former head of Dartmouth Hospital's palliative care department, and currently chief medical officer of the Providence Institute for Human Caring of Providence Health and Services, has been debating Compassion and Choices' Barbara Coombs Lee on various radio and tv shows during the period of intense … [Read more...] about Disability Rights Groups Protest Attempts to Silence Dr. Ira Byock, Assisted Suicide Opponent
Ezekiel Emanuel’s Latest Rant
Ezekiel Emanuel has spent his life building an impressive resume and now, at age 56, he wants the world to know that by 75 he plans to stop working so hard. In fact, he says that if he is still alive at 75, his master plan is to “stop all medical treatment” with the goal of avoiding such horrors of old age as frailty and forgetfulness. Emanuel told Judy Woodruff on PBS News … [Read more...] about Ezekiel Emanuel’s Latest Rant
Minds Change: Another Palliative Care Physician Explains His Opposition to Assisted Suicide
In this article a palliative care physician reports from experience about how patients' wishes for assisted suicide are often transient and how doctors cannot be certain what treatments or life events influence them to change their minds and want to live. A patient with a doctor-prescribed lethal dose in his or her possession may commit suicide on one of the days he wants to … [Read more...] about Minds Change: Another Palliative Care Physician Explains His Opposition to Assisted Suicide