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Showing posts with label assisted suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assisted suicide. Show all posts
Sunday, November 3, 2024

West Virginia: Prohibiting Assisted Suicide

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By Curtis Johnson. Original publication 10/31/24. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - The way you choose to deal with a terminal illness is on the ba...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Ontario's Euthanasia Report: The Poor and Those Who Lack Housing Are Most at Risk

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Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Ontario MAiD Death Review report has three parts ( Part 1 ) ( Part...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Opinion: Michigan Right-to-Die Legislation Must Consider Concerns of African Americans

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In the 1990s, Royal Oak’s Dr. Jack Kevorkian put a national spotlight on the debate over the right of terminally ill patients to die with th...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Quebec Scheduled to Begin Granting Requests for Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia (MAID)

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By Joe Bongiorno, The Canadian Press  MONTREAL — Quebecers who want to arrange a medically assisted death before their condition leaves them...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

New Jersey Update

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By Alex Schadenberg (pictured at right)* The New Jersey 2023 assisted suicide report states that there were 101 reported assisted suicide de...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Ex-Doctor Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Connection with Suicide of Upstate New York Woman

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BY  MICHAEL HILL  Updated 2:57 PM MDT, September3, 2024 KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — An 85-year-old former doctor from Arizona charged for his role...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Press Release: Bill Seeking to Legalize Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Remains Undecided by Delaware Governor Carney (pictured below)

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July 2, 2024 -- According to the American Medical Association, assisted suicide occurs when a doctor facilitates a person's death by pro...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Colorado Governor Signs Bill Reducing Patient Protections

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Governor Polis (pictured here) signed SB068, an amendment to Colorado’s End of Life Options Act (assisted suicide and euthanasia) into law o...
Monday, June 10, 2024

New York Act Fails to Advance

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The proposed Medical Aid in Dying Act, which had sought to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in New York State , was first introduced...
Friday, June 7, 2024

Beyond Terminal Illness. The Widening Scope of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the US.

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Please find Dr. Komrad's explanatory note to colleagues below. Physician-assisted suicide (PAS)—commonly but misleadingly called “medica...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

New Hampshire Senate Kills Bill

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https://www.concordmonitor.com/NH-Senate-kills-MAID-55151269 After months of intense public debate, with Granite Staters on both sides of th...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

California Senator Withdraws Expansion Bill

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Senator Catherine Blakespear has removed proposed Senate Bill 1196, seeking to expand assisted suicide and euthanasia in California, from co...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

A Short History of Assisted Suicide; Is Canadian Style Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Coming to California?

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By Diane Coleman  A California State Senator, Catherine Blakespear, introduced a bill (SB 1196) earlier this month that resembles Canada’s l...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

West Virginia to Vote on Landmark Constitutional Amendment Outlawing Medically Assisted Suicide in November 2024 Election

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WV News Report  West Virginia citizens will soon have a say on a constitutional change.  This change aims to ban "medically assisted su...
Monday, March 11, 2024

My Personal Experience With Assisted Suicide

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By Margaret Dore In another life, I talked three young men down from suicide. What I think happened is that a final exit network type person...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Indiana Resolution Opposing Assisted Suicide Passes in Committee

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Alex Schadenberg,  Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Indiana Resolution 17 titled:  A Concurrent Resolution opposing and c...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Virginia Assisted Suicide Bill Will Carry Over to 2025, Other Bills Dead

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More good news from the east coast! Virginia bill SB 280, which had passed in the Senate, failed to move forward in the House – despite last...
Monday, March 4, 2024

24 Years Ago, Jeanette Hall Had Terminal Cancer And Wanted Assisted Suicide

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By Alex Schadenberg , material contributed by Margaret Dore I was speaking this weekend in Oregon and Dr Kenneth Stevens gave us an incredib...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Nine States Have Strengthened Their Laws Against Assisted Suicide

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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA In the last thirteen years, at least nine states have strengthened their laws ag...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Indiana House Resolution Opposing Assisted Suicide; Senate Concurring

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To view the entire document,  click here . Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, t...