Here are some more important points in the newly released study, which I discussed more extensively here, that I think deserve special note. It turns out doctors have written lethal prescriptions for patients who weren’t yet suffering serious symptoms of their disease: No physical symptoms . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide advocates, when they are not striving to word engineer through use of the gooey euphemism “physician assisted death (PAD)”—which, alas, has been picked up by some professional journal authors—use scare tactics about unrelievable pain to sell the agenda. Well . . . . Continue Reading »
The media love stories such as this one in the Oregonian, byline Don Colburn; of the “fiercely independent” man or woman who decides the time has come to die through assisted suicide. From the story:Lovelle Svart woke up Friday knowing it was the day she would die. There was much to do. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued its ninth, virtually meaningless report on assisted suicide. I say virtually meaningless because it’s statistical analysis depends almost entirely on death doctor self-reporting. Little noted in the media, which regurgitates these statistics . . . . Continue Reading »
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