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…ts Options (NJTV News, 6/5/14) ‘Aid in dying’ bill approved by NJ Assembly committee (NJ.com, 6/5/14) N.J. Assembly committee advances end-of-life bill (NorthJersey.com, 6/5/14) Assembly panel to debate, vote on ‘aid in dying’ bill today (NJ.com, 6/5/14) The Basics: CT’s effort to expand patients’ end-of-life care options (CT Mirror, 4/17/14) Committee Has No Plans To Vote On Aid-In-Dying Bill (CT News Junkie, 3/25/14) Right-To-Die Bill Unlikely t…

Not Dead Yet (USA) Submission Opposing New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill

…ying (which later merged with the Hemlock Society/End-of-Life Choices to become Compassion and Choices) initially claimed that 75% of the doctors issuing lethal prescriptions were affiliated with their organization[30]. According to Dr. Elizabeth Goy of Oregon Health and Science University, Compassion in Dying (since renamed Compassion & Choices) sees “almost 90 percent of requesting Oregonians…”[31] The public relations image that one’s own physi…

Amicus Brief of Not Dead Yet et al (Disability Rights Amici) in Myers v. Schneiderman in NY Appellate Division

…ctor on Obama’s Team, New York Times (April 18, 2009), available at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/us/politics/18zeke.html………………………. 4 Peter Singer, Taking Life: Humans, in Practical Ethics, 175-217 (2d ed. 1993) ……………………………………………………………………… 9 STATEMENT OF ISSUES PRESENTED Plaintiffs-appellants (“appellants”) seek a court order prohibiting prosecution of physician assisted suicide under New York penal laws, as well as a court declaration t…

Not Dead Yet, et al. v. Andrew Cuomo, Governor, et al. Class Action Complaint

…any direct contact with the patient. “Instead, a triage officer or triage committee examines the data provided by the attending physician and makes the determination about a patient’s level of access to a ventilator.” Id. 40. The triage officer or triage community only uses clinical factors to evaluate a patient’s likelihood of survival and to determine the patient’s access to ventilator therapy. Id. 41. The Guidelines state that, “This role sequ…

Statement of Not Dead Yet (USA) to Canadian Panel on Carter Case Decision

…_Suicide.html?id=gMZU0cKqarAC [16] Compassion and Choices Timeline: http://www.compassionandchoices.org/who-we-are/timeline/ [17] See Hendin and Foley, Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective, Michigan Law Review (2008): http://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Hendin-Foley-Michigan-Law-Review.pdf, page 1628. [18] For more details and citations on the role of Compassion and Choices in Oregon assisted suicides, see M. Golden,…