Category Archives: assisted suicide

Canada: New Pro-Euthanasia Group Misinforms — and Doesn’t Want Anyone to Know Much About Them

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From Alex Schadenberg at his blog for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: New Group Misrepresenting Canada’s Euthanasia Law Excerpt: I received a call from Stephen Drake, the research director for Not Dead Yet, a disability rights group. Drake asked me whether I knew the group Dignity in Death? I answered no. In fact when I went … Continue reading Canada: New Pro-Euthanasia Group Misinforms — and Doesn’t Want Anyone to Know Much About Them →

New Hampshire: House Judiciary Committee Votes Against Assisted Suicide Bill

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Some good news from New Hampshire: A bill to legalize assisted suicide in New Hampshire lost key backing yesterday from a legislative committee when both supporters and opponents joined forces to reject it. The House Judiciary Committee voted 14-3 against the bill that would let terminally ill patients over age 18 obtain lethal prescriptions, with … Continue reading New Hampshire: House Judiciary Committee Votes Against Assisted Suicide Bill →

Disability Activists “Greet” Euthanasia Activist in San Francisco

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This just in from Marilyn Golden, Policy Analyst at Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF): (The date for the events below was November 10, 2009) On Tuesday morning, three anti-assisted suicide advocates from the San Francisco Bay Area disability community, Paul Longmore, Walter Park, and myself came to the San Francisco Buddhist Center (which … Continue reading Disability Activists “Greet” Euthanasia Activist in San Francisco →

Blog Recommendation: William Peace on UK “interim” Guidelines on Swiss Suicide Tourists

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I’ll be writing more on my own next week on this, but the Director of of Public Prosecutions in the UK issued his long-awaited “interim guidelines” on prosecutions in cases of friends/family assisting family members traveling to Switzerland to commit suicide. William Peace at Bad Cripple writes that the guidelines are a slam dunk for … Continue reading Blog Recommendation: William Peace on UK “interim” Guidelines on Swiss Suicide Tourists →

It’s Suicide Prevention Week – Except for Old, Ill and Physically Disabled People

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I’m not sure how many people are aware of this, but we are nearing the end of National Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 6-12). In fact, today – September 10 – is World Suicide Prevention Day. For readers of this blog, it might have been easy to miss this important week. After all, there have been … Continue reading It’s Suicide Prevention Week – Except for Old, Ill and Physically Disabled People →