…ent,” state-approved barbiturate poisoning. Assisted suicide laws turn the best outcome under hospice – proving you weren’t terminal after all – into the worst possible end for people who might live months, years, or decades longer, but are instead persuaded (or coerced) under threat of agonizing death to commit suicide. There are so many examples of people outliving terminal prognoses, from Ted Kennedy living a year longer than predicted to John…
…that mistake to lead to the prescribing of a lethal overdose is something completely different and should not be allowed. I am including here my testimony from two years ago, most of which is still relevant to the bill before you now: http://notdeadyet.org/2017/02/disability-advocate-sheryl-grossman-gives-moving-testimony-against-maryland-assisted-suicide-bill.html . I urge you to vote NO on S311 Thank you: Sheryl Grossman Community Living Advoca…
…ve an independent witness at the death. Disability rights advocates have become a leading voice in the debate over assisted suicide as public policy, increasingly acknowledged by the media, as well we should be. The threat to newly disabled people is especially serious. We owe it to them, and to all old, ill and disabled people, to lead the resistance against assisted suicide laws. For more information, go to the Not Dead Yet website and NDY’s Dis…
…allowed to pre-arrange for their deaths should they develop dementia, the question becomes practical access. This can be solved by permitting another to cause the death. If euthanasia or “assisted self-administration” is allowed, IV or lethal injection is the most expedient way to do it. Finally, coverage by Medicare normalizes the whole process. It reminds one of Jonathan Swift’s essay “A Modest Proposal” in which he sets forth a set of proposit…
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