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.

Vermont

Our Site is Back, so Here’s a Cautiously Optimistic Report on Today’s Hearings in Health and Welfare

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True Dignity board members spent the morning listening to testimony before the Senate Health and Welfare Committee.   There were five witnesses, three in favor of assisted suicide and two opposed. George Eighmey, the assisted suicide activist from Oregon who  has been in Vermont numerous times to tell us that the Oregon assisted suicide law has worked absolutely perfectly, … [Read more...] about Our Site is Back, so Here’s a Cautiously Optimistic Report on Today’s Hearings in Health and Welfare

An Factual Article and a Burlington Free Press Editorial on the Defeat of Assisted Suicide in the Vermont Senate

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We just got the new issue of the Patients Rights Council newsletter, with an excellent article about the defeat of the 10th attempt to legalize assisted suicide in our state. The Patients Rights Council article contains excerpts from the Burlington Free Press's April 13 editorial praising the defeat of assisted suicide on the grounds that it changes the doctor/patient … [Read more...] about An Factual Article and a Burlington Free Press Editorial on the Defeat of Assisted Suicide in the Vermont Senate

Letter to the Bennington Banner: Support Senator Sears on this issue (Killing Assisted Suicide)

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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)

Praise for Senator Sears: a Great Letter to the Bennington Banner

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Thursday March 22, 2012 http://www.benningtonbanner.com/letters/ci_20227178/letter-sears-did-right-thing Praise for Senator Sears Regarding Governor Shumlin’s comments concerning Senator Sears’ handling of the suicide bill: The governor is quoted as saying, "I’m always baffled by this conversation that it’s suicide." Why be baffled? The bill itself uses the word … [Read more...] about Praise for Senator Sears: a Great Letter to the Bennington Banner