By: Kyle Munson and Jason Clayworth Des Moines Register Betsy Davis was too weak to kill herself. So when it came time to end her life under a new California law for the terminally ill, her caregivers propped her up and held the cup as she drank a fatal mix of prescription drugs. But physical …
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By: Jacob Tierney Pittsburgh Tribune Review Seconds after Lana Lindauer stepped out of her husband’s bedroom to fetch his medicine, she heard the shot. John Vogeleer used a handgun to take his life. “I came out of the kitchen to get the prescription bag. ‘Bang!’ And I went flying back in, and I saw the …
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By: John Kelly Cape Cod Times Proponents of legalization like Elias Lieberman resent assisted suicide as a fairy tale in which doctors can predict the future and everyone wants the best for us (“Support for medical aid in dying continues to grow,” My View, Nov. 17). In the real world, legalized assisted suicide inevitably leads …
Orlando Sentinel Nov 13, 2016 By: Frederick J. White While deeply committed to effective relief of the pain and suffering of the terminally ill, the American Medical Association has long held a position that I share — that physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or …
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