I’ve been struggling through the decision by the Montana Supreme Court in Baxter v. Montana. I’m still trying to get my head around the implications of the specific wording used in the decision – a decision which states there is nothing that currently prohibits physician-assisted suicide in Montana law right now (in the court’s interpretation). … Continue reading Montana – What Others Are Saying
Celebrate Life is the magazine of the American Life League. I think this is the first time this blog has linked to anything from the publication. The magazine has just published a short article by John Mallon that has been emailed to me from three different sources – all of them apparently thinking it’s a … Continue reading “Celebrate Life” Blasts Two Opponents of Assisted Suicide
(Note – please read to the end. The main point of this story is that the Final Exit Network seems to have taken some pains to eliminate traces of a November ’08 press release that might interfere with current efforts to improve their public image. –Stephen) Unfortunately, there’s been a small rash of elderly men … Continue reading Final Exit Network in the News – Reframing Themselves and Erasing the Past
From The Telegraph: In a submission to a consultation on relaxing the rules on assisted suicide – which ends today – a coaliton of five disabled groups, said that “to see suicide as the right solution is to abandon hope. Severely ill and terminally ill people do no deserve society to give up on them.” … Continue reading UK: Disability Coalition Blasts Plan to Relax Prosecution of Suicide “Assistance”
While no one could have predicted Robert Yagi’s suicide, it shouldn’t really come as a surprise. Yagi was the 71-year-old-man charged with attempting to kill his wife with a flare gun loaded with a shotgun shell. According to police, he planned to kill himself after killing her. Friday’s blog entry described how that half-baked plan … Continue reading Hawaii – Robert Yagi Dead, and Assisted Suicide Advocates Continue to Exploit the Tragedy
