On Sunday, July 14th, the Sacramento Bee published an excellent op-ed by Marilyn Golden countering a previously published piece promoting assisted suicide. Here’s an excerpt from her response essay, titled “Assisted suicide fraught with consequences“: Efforts to legalize assisted suicide have been attempted in California three times, each time failing due to broad bipartisan opposition […]
This week, the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Stateline carried an article entitled “New End-of-Life Measure Quietly Sweeps the Nation.” The measure described is Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), sometimes also called Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST). According to the National POLST Paradigm website, POLST originated in 1991, and 14 states had adopted it by […]
On March 21st, the Monterey County Herald published an op-ed by Neil Shapiro, which was, until the last paragraph, a fairly unremarkable and unoriginal promotion of legalized assisted suicide. The author praised Jack Kevorkian and the states of Oregon and Washington – the two states that have legalized physician-prescribed suicide for people believed to have less […]
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 […]
I was at a conference last week and will be writing about that later today. In the meantime, I wanted to share a few excerpts from Indybay.org, about a “Bisexuality Across Cultures” event held on May 27th. Assisted suicide, euthanasia and NDY came up in this event. Here’s the intro: The Bisexual Forum of San […]
On March 23, the LA Times published an editorial titled Sense and suicide, which bemoaned the damage that the Final Exit Network could do to the mainstream assisted suicide movement. From that starting point, they went on to extol the virtues of legalized assisted suicide, arguing that the expansive eligibility criteria of the FEN would […]
Over the weekend, an anonymous reader of this blog tipped me off to an important investigative piece published in the Los Angeles Times, in collaboration with ProPublica, ” an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.” To many readers, the following article might have been shocking: Dozens of registered nurses convicted […]
