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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Connecticut Bill Dead!

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Assisted suicide bill won't be voted on [For a legal and policy analysis against the bill, please  click here ] THE ASSOCIATED PRES...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Assisted suicide is a "prescription for abuse"

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http://www.theday.com/article/20140318/OP02/303189999 I am a former three-term state representative in New Hampshire. Just last week, our...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Connecticut: Dore Letter and Memo to Committee

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Dear Committee Members: I am a Democrat and a lawyer in Washington State where assisted suicide is legal.  Our law is modeled on a similar...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Live Free or Die! New Hampshire Obliterates Oregon-Style Death with Dignity Act!

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Today, the New Hampshire House of Representatives defeated HB 1325. The bill had sought to enact an Oregon-style assisted suicide law in New...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

New Hampshire: Pro-Assisted Suicide Bills Go Down in Flames!

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Today, HB 1216 , which sought to decriminalize soliciting a suicide, and HB 1292 ,  creating an affirmative defense for a person who causes ...

"Older people are no longer valued as they were before."

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http://www.nhregister.com/opinion/20140304/letters-to-the-editor-time-to-rethink-who-our-leaders-are   (second letter) Dear Editor:   I am a...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The High Financial Cost of (Regular) Suicides.

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Dear New Hampshire House Members: I am an attorney in Washington State where physician-assisted suicide is legal.  Our law is based on a s...

"I hope that Connecticut does not repeat Oregon's mistake."

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http://www.journalinquirer.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/march-letters/article_ccb4e384-a2bb-11e3-b9c8-001a4bcf887a.html   (second lette...

Don’t make Oregon’s mistake

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http://www.journalinquirer.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/march-letters/article_ea92adaa-a38d-11e3-9790-001a4bcf887a.html  (last letter)...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Sign the Petition

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http://ireneogrizek.ca/2014/02/26/14654/ Assisted Suicide: Sign the Petition By  Irene Ogrizek  on  February 26, 2014 Citizens of al...
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...