…n the state’s assisted suicide bill on Monday, April 26. In a brief two-and-a-half minutes, she shared her mother’s story of a very mistaken medical prognosis as well as opposition to assisted suicide in communities of color. Below is a recording of her strong testimony, followed by a transcript. http://notdeadyet.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Anita-Cameron-RI-Senate-Judiciary-4-26-21.mp4 Testimony of Anita Cameron in opposition to Rhode Island B…
…acamaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ethics-Consultation-Anorexia-Nervosa-9-3-21.pdf 4 Fabian Stahle, “Oregon Health Authority Reveals Hidden Problems with the Oregon Assisted Suicide Model” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xOZfLFrvuQcazZfFudEncpzp2b18NrUo/view 5 “Diabetics Eligible for Physician Assisted Suicide Oregon, ” The Washington Times https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/11/diabetics-eligible-physician-assisted-suicide-oreg/ 6…
…ennsylvania’s medical school. He noted that most of those who have used aid-in-dying laws are white, well insured and college-educated. “These are people who are used to controlling every aspect of their lives, and they want to control this aspect of their lives.” Szabo reports on a 2009 study on 56 Oregon patients, who were found not to be concerned about current pain, but “quality-of-life” issues such as loss of autonomy and dependence on others…
…een 2000–2021. It reports that suicide was responsible for 48,183 deaths in 2021. Many resources exist to inform the public about suicide – what it is, it’s impact on the country and on certain communities, the signs to watch for and how to prevent it – but no resource addresses the state sanctioned suicide masquerading as health care, that proponents call medical aid in dying, but opponents call by its true name: assisted suicide. Assisted suicid…
…ennsylvania’s medical school. He noted that most of those who have used aid-in-dying laws are white, well insured and college-educated. “These are people who are used to controlling every aspect of their lives, and they want to control this aspect of their lives.” Szabo reports on a 2009 study on 56 Oregon patients, who were found not to be concerned about pain, but “quality-of-life” issues such as loss of autonomy and dependence on others. Then s…
