Montana: Diane Coleman Letter on Elder Abuse and Assisted Suicide Published in Missoulian

December 6, 2012assisted suicide, elder abuse, letters to the editor, Montana, Our News & Commentary BlogStephen Drake

…g. Diane Coleman, President/CEO, Not Dead Yet, Rochester, New York (note – URL in text above is different than the one that originally appeared in the letter. The Elder Abuse Daily site seems to be defunct – sadly, organizations that concern themselves with reporting and preventing elder abuse have a harder time finding funding than assisted suicide advocates, it seems. The link provided above is to a snapshot of the original page, courtesy of the…

Robin Williams and the Hypocrisy of Suicide Prevention Organizations

August 24, 2014american foundation for suicide prevention, assisted suicide, International Association of Suicide Prevention, Our News & Commentary Blog, suicide, suicide preventionAmerican Association for Suicide Prevention, American Association of Suicidology, assisted suicide, Final Exit Network, International Association of Suicide Prevention, Robin Williams, suicide, suicide preventionStephen Drake

…cross the country with the message “My Life My Death My Choice,” and their URL printed underneath. One of the first appeared in the San Francisco area. The Bay Citizen, an independent newspaper, published an article with two suicide prevention professionals responding to the billboard: “This is irresponsible and downright dangerous; it is the equivalent of handing a gun to someone who is suicidal,” wrote Lanny Berman, president of the Internationa…