I am a severely disabled woman, and head up the national disability group, Not Dead Yet, which has members in Hawaii. I’ve spent a lifetime advocating for the rights of disabled people, young and old, to control our own lives and not have our choices dictated by doctors and other professionals. So you might wonder why I …
Not Dead Yet Testimony Opposing Hawaii Assisted Suicide Bill Read More »
A bill that would allow terminally ill adults in Hawaii to end their lives with doctor-prescribed drugs will be discussed at a joint committee hearing Tuesday. The sensitive subject has been debated in the islands for two decades. So far, six states have legalized medical aid in dying. Modeled after California’s law, House Bill 2739, entitled …
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The New Hampshire Senate today killed SB 490 on a 12-10 vote. This attempt to establish an “end-of-life study committee” would have been a step toward an assisted suicide law for New Hampshire, as the sponsor made clear in her speech introducing the bill. This vote is a statement that New Hampshire does not want …
Physician-assisted suicide is a growing epidemic in society today. Also called “Death with Dignity”, a person may choose to end their life with a doctor’s prescription of lethal drugs. To carry out the act of assisted suicide, you must have a terminal illness with less than six months to live, you must be of sound …
A disputed case of euthanasia in Belgium, involving the death of a dementia patient who never formally asked to die, has again raised concerns about weak oversight in a country with some of the world’s most liberal euthanasia laws. The case is described in a letter provided to The Associated Press, written by a doctor …
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The euthanasia of mentally ill or cognitively impaired patients is inherently controversial. Given the risk of fatal error, how many botched cases would it take to discredit the practice completely? If you said “any number greater than zero,” you would be interested in the physician-assisted death of a 74-year-old woman with dementia in the Netherlands …
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A disputed case of euthanasia in Belgium, involving the death of a dementia patient who never formally asked to die, has again raised concerns about weak oversight in a country with some of the world’s most liberal euthanasia laws. The case is described in a letter provided to The Associated Press, written by a doctor …
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Suicide is a growing problem, and yet, the assisted suicide movement receives none of the blame. It should. Pushing suicide impacts people’s attitudes. Normalizing it surely leads to more self killings, given what we know about the copy-cat phenomenon. In this regard, Oregon assisted suicides were up again last year. Although, since honesty is not the movement’s …
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California voters passed a law two years ago that allows terminally ill people to take lethal drugs to end their lives, but controversy is growing over a newer rule that effectively bans that option in the state’s eight veterans’ homes. Proponents of medical aid-in-dying and residents of the Veterans Home of California-Yountville — the largest …
Inherent Hypocrisy of PAS: Compassion For Me But Not For Thee Read More »
US assisted suicide advocates pretend a lot of things. One is that no doctor will ever be forced to participate in an assisted suicide. But once in awhile they reveal their actual intentions. Case in point: A new bill in Wisconsin would force every doctor asked for an assisted suicide by a legally eligible patient …