…y is for legislators to hear all sides. Unfortunately, Dr. Bluestein’s “Aid-in-dying bill is now personal” crosses the line [Letters to the editor]. By casting opponents of assisted suicide as having “no compassion, no empathy, no sense of decency,” he overlooks some basic questions. First, isn’t it more compassionate to provide a dying person with support, affirmation of dignity and first-rate pain-and-symptom management than to create a society…
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…blished articles, submitted testimony in legislatures, and provided the day-to-day management an organization requires. I’m not saying this to be “inspirational”, but to make it clear that people like me can and do work, and/or do lots of other worthwhile and fun things, and should not be written off. How Assisted Suicide Laws Endanger People Like Me The Statement of Purpose in NH HB 1659 makes it crystal clear that someone like me would be viewed…
…ide laws. Endnotes [1] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Revised-OR-WA-Abuses.pdf [2]https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EVALUATIONRESEARCH/DEATHWITHDIGNITYACT/Documents/year21.pdf [3] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Oregon-DHS.pdf [4]https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EVALUATIONRESEARCH/DEATHWITHDIGNITYACT/Documents/year21.pdf [5] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/11/diabe…
…d then DREDF is Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, the acronym D-R-E-D-F.org and actually, if you just go there at this point, the first thing there is the COVID, the link to their COVID resources and so, that’s the easiest way to find that. Bob Kafka: And hasn’t there been, I know – I think, four states where vent users have had their own personal ventilators confiscated when they went into the hospital? Do you have info on those lawsu…
