…fered from Lou Gehrig’s disease moved into her home, named her his estate trustee, deeded his home to a trust, and then died by physician-assisted suicide Two days after Thomas Middleton died, Sawyer listed the property for sale and deposited the sale money into one of her own accounts. This story came to light, not through any assisted suicide program safeguards, but through suspicious real estate transactions. Americans place tremendous value on…
…a lethal prescription in Oregon were physically unable to take the lethal drugs without assistance. That means that another person administered the drugs: there is no way to prevent an attendant or a family member from doing this when a lethal prescription is in the house of a person with a disability. Advocates for assisted suicide point to the fact that many people keep the lethal prescription in their home but never take it, wishing only to fee…
…fered from Lou Gehrig’s disease moved into her home, named her his estate trustee, deeded his home to a trust, and then died by physician-assisted suicide. Two days after Thomas Middleton died, Sawyer listed the property for sale and deposited $90,000 into her own account. It took a federal investigation into real estate fraud to expose this abuse. Oregon’s assisted suicide program never noticed. The state decided in the end not to even prosecute…
…ing for doing so much to make our voices heard this week as we protest the World Federation of Right to Die Societies. Thanks to LIFE CIL, the Will-Grundy Center in Illinois, and TRIPIL from Pennsylvania, and folks who’ve come from as far away as Colorado and Canada. You’re amazing. My long time mentor on this issue is Carol Gill, who I first met on a picket line trying to save a young woman with cerebral palsy from a suicide wish that the Hemlock…
…approve of laws that would allow a physician to prescribe lethal doses of drugs that a terminally ill patient could use to commit suicide.” http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/11/end-of-life-overview-4.png Physicians for Compassionate Care, “Five Oregonians to Remember.” http://www.pccef.org/articles/art60.htm Portland Tribune, “Another Case for Nursing Reform.” July 9, 2007 http://portlandtribune.com/component/content/article?id=89126 YouTube, “Ba…
