The Baltimore Sun By: Pamela Wood A bill to allow certain terminally ill Marylanders to obtain medication to end their lives is advancing in the state Senate, but it has been changed so much that the leading advocacy group says it cannot support the bill in its current form. Kim Callinan, CEO of Compassion & …
In an open letter to Nevada Senator Julia Ratti, the American College of Physicians explain their opposition to SB 165, which would legalize assisted suicide in Nevada. Click below to read the full letter. Nevada – Julia Ratti – ACP letter opposing SB 165
The Annals on Internal Medicine published a paper, Ethics and the Legalization of physician-Assisted Suicide: An American College of Physicians Position Paper. Read the full paper by clicking below. ACP Position Paper on Ethics and the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide
BY: Dr. Ralph A. Capone Pittsburgh Tribune Review via TribLive.com In response to the news story “Efforts to introduce ‘Death with Dignity’ laws in Pa. stall”: Enshrining a new right in Pennsylvania, the right to assisted suicide, would involve an act unachievable without third-party assistance. And so, the medical profession will be enlisted, willingly or not, …
BY: Dr. Gregg Schmedes Albuquerque Journal Amidst a surprise presidential election, our neighbors to the north have approved physician-assisted suicide, by a margin of 2-to-1. While I applaud the intention of Coloradans to relieve suffering, let’s examine what they’ve actually done. Physician-assisted suicide allows terminally ill patents to ask a doctor to prescribe them a …
By: Kyle Munson and Jason Clayworth Des Moines Register Betsy Davis was too weak to kill herself. So when it came time to end her life under a new California law for the terminally ill, her caregivers propped her up and held the cup as she drank a fatal mix of prescription drugs. But physical …
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By: Jacob Tierney Pittsburgh Tribune Review Seconds after Lana Lindauer stepped out of her husband’s bedroom to fetch his medicine, she heard the shot. John Vogeleer used a handgun to take his life. “I came out of the kitchen to get the prescription bag. ‘Bang!’ And I went flying back in, and I saw the …
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By: John Kelly Cape Cod Times Proponents of legalization like Elias Lieberman resent assisted suicide as a fairy tale in which doctors can predict the future and everyone wants the best for us (“Support for medical aid in dying continues to grow,” My View, Nov. 17). In the real world, legalized assisted suicide inevitably leads …
Orlando Sentinel Nov 13, 2016 By: Frederick J. White While deeply committed to effective relief of the pain and suffering of the terminally ill, the American Medical Association has long held a position that I share — that physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or …
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