…dge available: ourselves. But I’m not suggesting we open clinics with “walk-ins welcome” signs. I agree completely with the idea of a lengthy application, testing, and approval process to make certain the decision is made soberly and willingly, and for stronger reasons than a comparatively fleeting low point. She didn’t say who would review the applications, administer the tests, or issue the approvals, but whether it be a doctor or some other aut…
…r Annie, Abuse. In 1995, journalist David Rundle read of the murder of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy — from starvation. He was appalled at the lack of passion with which the perpetrator – her mother – was prosecuted. The idea that this was an isolated case, he writes, made it endurable. Turns out the case – and the system’s response — aren’t isolated ones at all. This opinion article originally ran in the Apr. 23, 2006 Wichita Eagle If I…
…y ill patients. In 2007, none of the 46 people in Oregon who used physician-assisted suicide were evaluated by a psychologist or psychiatrist, the news release said. For the new study, researchers at Oregon Health and Sciences University checked for depression or anxiety in 58 terminally ill patients who’d requested physician-assisted suicide or had contacted an assisted death organization. Fifteen of the patients met the criteria for depression a…
…ical alterations to his physical appearance. Autopsy found him to be cancer-free. Search for op-eds by FEN members and you’ll find the claims that members make about their goals, methods and “clients” to vary widely — apparently, they can’t keep their stories straight. The journalists at the paper might want to actually do some research and reporting on this case before giving the group a bully pulpit here. People who follow this blog might notice…
…tions of assisted suicide, euthanasia, and medical killing by filing friend-of-the-court briefs, organizing demonstrations at meetings of the Hemlock Society (and its successor, Compassion and Choices), participating in debates, educating legislators in jurisdictions where measures to legalize such practices are under consideration, giving media interviews, and writing articles, editorials and letters in professional and mainstream media. All of t…
