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

Amendments Defeated

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Amendments requiring reporting on what happens at the time the poison is ingested and that the death certificate list the true cost of death have been defeated by voice vote, as has a third amendment, whose details I don't remember. An amendment to clarify that a patient whose assisted suicide fails would be not be excluded from insurance coverage of further health care has … [Read more...] about Amendments Defeated

House Judiciary Committee Sends Oregon Style Assisted Suicide Bill to the Full House for a Vote: Please Call Your Representatives and Ask Them to Vote NO.

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By an 8-4 vote, the House Judiciary Committee yesterday passed an assisted suicide bill modeled after Oregon's.  The committee struck several amendments designed to convince members that our law would have better safeguards, as if that were possible anyway. The bill will come to a vote in the full House on Tuesday.  If it passes on first reading, there will be a second and … [Read more...] about House Judiciary Committee Sends Oregon Style Assisted Suicide Bill to the Full House for a Vote: Please Call Your Representatives and Ask Them to Vote NO.

Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill is Just “the First Step”

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Below, in italics, is the excellent testimony Vermonter Kathleen Grange gave at the public hearing before the House Human Services and Judiciary Committees last week.  Based on what she heard with her own ears, she told the committees, "The slippery slope is here!"  There was another witness, a medical doctor, who planned to tell the committees that he had heard the same thing … [Read more...] about Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill is Just “the First Step”