https://thisisreno.com/2025/03/physician-assisted-suicide-nevada/
Submitted by Jason Guinasso, pictured left.
Just two years after Gov. Joe Lombardo’s veto protected Nevada from misguided physician-assisted suicide legislation, the issue has returned in the form of Assembly Bill 346. The new bill, which would legalize what proponents euphemistically call “medical aid in dying,” represents not progress but regression in how we care for our most vulnerable citizens....
Despite some cosmetic changes, AB346 contains the same dangerous flaws as its predecessor. The bill’s safeguards against coercion are illusory, its premises about terminal prognosis are scientifically unsound, and its effects on our healthcare system would be corrosive.
Most troublingly, the legislation does nothing to address the perverse economic incentives that inevitably accompany physician-assisted suicide. Insurance companies stand to save millions by offering death instead of treatment, as we’ve already seen in states like California, where Stephanie Packer was denied chemotherapy but offered suicide pills for a $1.20 co-pay.
Joseph Mackinnon, 03/10/25
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey [pictured right] has requested that the Justice Department investigate the legality of Biden's presidential orders.
The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project revealed Thursday that Joe Biden's signature on numerous executive orders, pardons, and other documents of national consequence appears to have been machine-generated.
Oversight Project Executive Director Mike Howell told Blaze News, "The main legal question here is who was the president over the last four years. That's what we are aiming to uncover. The prolific use of autopen by the Biden White House was an instrument to hide the truth from the American people as to who was running the government."
The watchdog group noted that "every document" they could find with Biden's signature — with the exception of the announcement indicating that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race — "used the same autopen signature."
The Jetson Plasma Iridescent Hoverboard sells for $148 at Walmart and allows riders to zip around on two wheels.
It’s powered by a lithium-ion battery and on Feb. 1, 2022, one at the Wadsworth home in Sweetwater County allegedly experienced a “thermal runaway,” causing it to burst into flames and burn down the home, according to a lawsuit filed in Wyoming District Federal Court.
Ryan Pasborg was running late for work as he drove past the Wadsworth family home on Highway 374 in James Town in rural Sweetwater County around 4:30 a.m. and saw smoke and flames coming from a bedroom window.
Stephanie suffered “devastating burns covering 35%” of her body, according to court documents.
Weston was also severely burned, but survived, while Pasborg was honored for his heroism.
By Matt Walsh, 03/10/25
A couple of months ago we discussed once again the travesty of justice that was the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin [pictured right] . This was a trial that was conducted just down the street from ground-zero of the BLM riots of 2020, which destroyed Minneapolis’ police precinct, caused $500 million in damage to more than 1,500 businesses, and resulted in several deaths. We’re talking about the single most destructive riot in United States history, after the Los Angeles riots of 1992. And it happened in the same place where Derek Chauvin’s trial was being held. But the judge — who later declared that “every case is about racial justice” in some way — didn’t move the trial to a different venue. Instead, he made sure that Chauvin’s fate was determined by jurors who knew well that their city would burn to the ground if they didn’t convict. They had security fencing and National Guard troops all around the courthouse throughout the trial, just in case that message wasn’t clear.
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Original publication 03/06/25.
I recently spoke at the British parliament about the experience with assisted suicide in America. The British parliament is currently debating the legalization of assisted suicide. The British assisted suicide bill, that is sponsored by Kim Leadbeater, is similar to an American style assisted suicide bill.
While in England, I had the opportunity to visit with a physician who practises palliative medicine. She told me about a meeting with a patient and her family to explain that the patient has a terminal condition but she is not terminally ill.
In 2011, Dr Kenneth Stevens [pictured above], a long time radiation oncologist in Oregon, wrote an excellent article titled: "Terminal Illness: What does it mean?" In his article Dr Stevens writes about several of his patients who were diagnosed with a terminal illness.
The first story was a patient, Mr Jones, who was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to his brain. Dr Stevens explains:
He was not having any breathing problems and, except for headaches, the tumors in his brain were not causing any neurological or mental problems. Yet, his doctor had told him and his wife that he was "terminal."
With the sudden passing of Not Dead Yet’s irreplaceable Founder, President and CEO, Diane Coleman , the Board of Not Dead Yet (NDY) was tasked with ensuring that her legacy continues into the next phase of this important mission, decades in the undertaking. We worked over a period of months, to select and appoint Ian McIntosh [pictured here] as Interim Executive Director. In this unprecedented and challenging time, Ian will provide leadership and direction while stewarding Not Dead Yet’s constant critical mission to oppose the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia as deadly forms of disability discrimination.
Ian joins Not Dead Yet having previously served as the Director of Disability Outreach for the Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF), a leading, national, secular, non-partisan leader defending the rights of patients, people with disabilities, our elders, and the poor from the threat of legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia.
By Jack Hogan, 03/03/25
Aid-in-dying advocates and at least one top House member were initially under the impression that Judicial Proceedings Committee Chair Will Smith would reschedule the canceled hearing, which was planned for Wednesday.
But top senators didn’t have plans to reschedule, and House Majority Leader David Moon wrote in a text message that he heard the bill was dead in the Senate....
Maryland lawmakers have debated the issue for a decade. In 2019, the House of Delegates passed a version of the proposal but it stalled in the Senate after a single lawmaker’s inaction [Senator Obie Patterson] led to a split vote and the proposal’s demise.
When a jurisdiction is debating an assisted suicide bill, many organizations and individuals present information about the necessary safeguards that the jurisdiction must implement to “safely” legalize assisted suicide.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition knows that it is not possible to “safely” legalize assisted suicide and once legal the law will inevitably expand.
Great Britain is currently debating an assisted suicide bill sponsored by Kim Leadbeater. Many states have already introduced assisted suicide bills in 2025 and we anticipate many more legalization bills this year. We know that some states that have legalized assisted suicide will debate bills to expand their law.
This article focuses on the experience with assisted suicide in jurisdictions where it is legal.
Nearly every jurisdiction that has legalized assisted suicide, later expanded their law.
The assisted suicide lobby groups know that it is more difficult to legalize assisted suicide than it is to expand the law once it is legal.
By Alex Schadenberg
..the core of an agreement, unprecedented in Switzerland, that was signed late last year between canton Solothurn and the right-to-die organisation Pegasos. Under the new arrangement, if Pegasos provides video evidence that the suicide was carried out by the person themselves, as well as additional information, then the authorities do not send in a legal and medical team to investigate the death.
Wednesday morning, Gov. Laura Kelly signed the bill into law.
"I felt like, for the first time that people get it, that they understand there's a problem, the suicide rates are a problem," Dennis said. "And that this was such a positive win for the state of Kansas."
As the bill made its way through the statehouse, many more stories surfaced of families who went through the same thing.
Kristi Khan of Colby lost her son, Kai, who was transgender. He'd also been on this same website.
"When I reached out to the detective on my son's case and said, 'Did you see all this?' and he's like, 'Well, it's not against the law,'" Khan said. "So I am beyond thrilled to see that Kansas is doing this. And I'm hoping that other states will see this and follow suit."
What I think happened is that a final exit network type person had given them my phone number by mistake. This was before the age of caller ID.
I was contacted by each of the three young men over a period of time, each one wanting assistance to kill himself.
I called a suicide prevention person to ask what I should do, i.e., with regard to the first one. The person told me to ask the suicidal person why? To engage him.
So that’s what I did. I met each one at a local park, which I thought would be safe for me and asked him why, and then I tried to expand to other topics.
The last one I got him laughing. He told me that he no longer felt like killing himself.
To the best of my knowledge they all lived, but I don't know for sure.