In a state where there are some 300-plus uninvestigated cases of abuse of
the vulnerable, I simply cannot believe that Gov. Peter Shumlin, House Speaker
Shap Smith and Rep. Ann Pugh, D-South Burlington, can even contemplate pushing
a bill to help the terminally ill kill themselves! Curiously they are pushing
doctor-prescribed death in the name of “compassionate care.”
A state government that is unable to investigate a known backlog of 300
reports of abuse and neglect of the elderly, the disabled, the sick — and to
prevent such abuse in the first place — is demonstrably untrustworthy to
safely implement doctor-prescribed death!
PETE GUMMERE
St. Johnsbury