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.

Prognosis Inaccuracy

The Unreliability of Diagnoses:Texas Woman Undergoes Chemotherapy for Stage Four Cancer She Did Not Have

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Thanks to Margaret Dore of Choice is an Illusion for posting the story below about an incorrect diagnosis that fortunately did not lead to a hastened death but easily might have.  The story is about a woman who underwent destructive chemotherapy therapy after receiving a diagnosis of Stage 4 terminal cancer.  See our recent post about the Italian man who died at the Swiss … [Read more...] about The Unreliability of Diagnoses:Texas Woman Undergoes Chemotherapy for Stage Four Cancer She Did Not Have

So Much for Those Prognoses of Six or Fewer Months to Live

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On the website of the New England Journal of Medicine, there is a "special article" entitled "Implementing a Death with Dignity Program at a Comnprehensive Cancer Center".  It describes a real program and a real experience at "Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, the site of care for the Fred Hutchinson–University of Washington Cancer Consortium, a comprehensive cancer center in … [Read more...] about So Much for Those Prognoses of Six or Fewer Months to Live