…on Kevorkian. The second surprise is that when the article came out on the CNN website today, the views and concerns are fairly presented in the context of an article on the activities of the assisted suicide advocacy group “Compassion and Choices,” also known as “Conflation and Con Jobs.” That’s no reflection on Ms. Landau, whose work I am unfamiliar with. The negative expectations are based on overall patterns when dealing with media rather than…
…s). This time at least some of the misinformation was generated by a Dutch news source. News sources in the Netherlands tend to be biased – naturally – in favor of the euthanasia practices in that country, but are generally accurate when describing the “strict guidelines” and eligibility criteria. Not this time. Here is how eligibility is described in the DutchNews.nl article titled Voluntary euthanasia group plans to set up ‘help to die’ teams: E…
…sted suicide later that very month. Middleton had named Sawyer his estate trustee and put his home in her trust. 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. Sawyer was indicted for first-degree criminal mistreatment and first-degree aggravated theft, partly over criminal mistreatment of Thomas Middl…
…report.pdf [27] Autopsy Cutbacks Reveal “Gray Homicides”: http://canhr.org/newsroom/canhrnewsarchive/2011/NPR20110205.html [28] 42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq. [29] See e.g., Not Dead Yet et al. brief in Gonzales v. Oregon (http://notdeadyet.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gonzales.html) and Morris v. Brandenburg (http://notdeadyet.org/ndy-et-al-amicus-brief-in-new-mexico-supreme-court-in-morris-v-brandenburg) [30] Medical Futility in End-of-Life Care,…
…hirty-nine-year-old Karen McCarron was taken into custody after Thursday’s ruling. Authorities say McCarron killed her 3-year-old daughter with a garbage bag in May 2006. The family lived in Morton. The charges against her were first-degree murder, obstruction of justice and concealment of a homicide. –Stephen Drake Addendum: I hope this isn’t a bad omen, but I just got off the phone with the Chicago AP office, which is transmitting its coverage o…
