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BREAKING NEWS: Compassion and Choices Suffers Damaging Court Loss in New Jersey

For some it may be unthinkable at any time of the year, let alone during the holiday season, that there is a cadre of relentless professional assisted suicide advocacy organizations seeking more efficient ways for people with disabilities to kill themselves during this national moment when Medicare, SNAP, and “streamlined” federal departments (i.e. HUD ) […]

UK – Dominic Lawson: Why the disabled fear assisted suicide

The following are excerpts from an excellent piece by columnist Dominic Lawson.  He arranged to visit SCOPE, the UK disability charity that published the results of a survey earlier this year, finding that 70% of disabled respondents expressed concerns about their own safety if assisted suicide was legalized in the UK. Lawson was allowed to […]

UK: Poll shows disabled people’s fear over assisted suicide

Scope is a charity (or what we would call “non-profit” in the US) that provides services for people with disabilities, and also engages in advocacy – the organization’s primary focus in on people with cerebral palsy.  (This is what I was able to gather from the website – if I’ve gotten it wrong, please write […]