Earlier this month, Washington State released its report on the first 10 months of its brand-new assisted suicide law. You can read a pretty typical press account at this NY Times link. However, neither the Times nor most of the media gets at some of the troubling information that emerges from this report – limited … Continue reading Bad Cripple on Washington State Death Toll (blog recommendation)
There’s a fresh piece from Ann Neumann on Alternet, bemoaning the way the euthanasia debate in the UK – and here in the US – has become another aspect of the “Culture Wars.” As mentioned in an earlier post, there has been a flood of pro-euthanasia coverage in the UK. It’s even got Ann Neumann, … Continue reading Alternet: Ann Neumann’s Disingenuous Complaints About the State of the Euthanasia Debate
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
Update on the article that appeared in yesterday’s edition of the Princetonian, which contained inaccurate and defamatory remarks about NDY. The online article has been revised. The article also carries an Editor’s note at the end of the article, which we’re told was published in today’s print edition of the Princetonian: Due to an editing … Continue reading Followup on Princetonian – and more thoughts from Bill Peace and Gary Presley
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
