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Monday, February 24, 2014

Concerns about assisted suicide include hiding malpractice and "lazy doctoring."

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http://helenair.com/news/opinion/readers_alley/against-physician-assisted-suicide/article_7b17e3b6-9b57-11e3-ab51-001a4bcf887a.html I am a...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

New Swiss Study Misses the Obvious: Wealthy Older People May Have been Targeted for Their Money.

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"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!" - William Shakespeare King Lear  Act 1, Scene 4 Be...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Margaret Dore writes the New Hampshire Judiciary Committee: Vote "No" on HB 1325

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Madame Chair and Members of the Committee, During the recent hearing on assisted suicide, I mentioned that there had been a significant inc...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Dr. Toffler Writes the New Hampshire Judiciary Committee: "Vote NO on HB 1325"

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Dear Members of the Committee: I am a doctor in Oregon where assisted suicide is legal.  As a professor of Family Medicine and practicing p...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Preventing Abuse and Exploitation: A Personal Shift in Focus. An article about guardianship, elder abuse and assisted suicide.

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http://www.americanbar.org/publications/voice_of_experience/2014/winter/preventing_abuse_and_exploitationa_personal_shift_focus.html http:...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Oregon's new assisted suicide report: chronic conditions; people with money and more

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By Margaret Dore, Esq. Updated February 19, 2014 Oregon's assisted suicide report for 2013 has been released to the public.[1]  Per...
Monday, January 27, 2014

A Legislator's Question

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By Margaret Dore, Esq. Updated February 5, 2014 A legislator considering an assisted suicide law asked me this question:   "Is ther...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

A response to the press: The wife would still be a victim. In Oregon, murder-suicide follows "the national pattern."

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I am an attorney in Washington State where physician-assisted suicide is legal.  I was disturbed by your article suggesting that legal assis...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Montana board forced to remove position statement. Help us make it permanent & overturn Baxter

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For the last three years, Montanans Against Assisted Suicide (MAAS) has been an integral player in keeping assisted suicide from becoming l...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

New Board Member Kate Kelly!

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Welcome to our newest Board member, Kate Kelly! Kate Kelly, B.Ed., B.A. Kate Kelly grew up in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada.   She i...

Board Member William Reichel, M.D.

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Below is an updated biography for Choice is an Illusion Board Member, William Reichel MD. As noted below, he was recently named as one of ...

William Reichel MD: Dutch law allows euthanasia

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Originally published in The Advocate , the Official Publication of the Idaho State Bar, October 2010. http://www.margaretdore.com/info/Octo...

Mild stroke led to mother's forced starvation

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By Kate Kelly I watched an old woman die of hunger and thirst.  She had Alzheimer's, this old woman, and was child-like, trusting, v...

"He made the mistake of asking for information about assisted suicide"

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http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/mailbag/legalizing-assisted-suicide-allows-physicians-to-pressure-patients/article_5726f258-84fb-11e2-970...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Suicide prevention plans at odds with right to die

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This Canadian article is consistent with the Oregon experience in which legalization of physician-assisted suicide was followed by a signifi...

Washington's Assisted Suicide Act

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Originally published as  " ' Death with Dignity':  What Do We Advise Our Clients?," King County Bar Bulletin, May 2009.  ...