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July 15, 2018March 16, 2022

WHAT “DO EVERYTHING” REALLY MEANS

ZDoggMD (Zubin Damania, MD) explains in his engrossing style what it really means to decide that you want to be kept alive by doing everything possible. It may be time to remodel those advance directives. (Continue reading ...)

April 22, 2018

Seeking justice in Minnesota

On April 16, 2018, the Final Exit Network (FEN) filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the State of Minnesota. The suit asks the court to declare that Minnesota's law prohibiting speaking to a person about how to hasten her own death is a violation of the free speech clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. The suit seeks, also, to void FEN’s conviction under the statute, and to bar the State of Minnesota from again initiating a prosecution of FEN, and its personnel, under the statute based solely on the utterance of “speech” that “enables” a suicide. (Continue reading ...)

January 28, 2018

21 MAJOR END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS

This week's post is a checklist of 21 major end-of-life decisions by John Abraham, author of “How To Get The Death You Want — A Practical and Moral Guide” (2017, Upper Access Press) and on Amazon Contact: JohnWithFEN@earthlink.net Web site: www.DeathAndDyingHelp.com (Continue reading ...)

January 8, 2018January 10, 2018

Whose decision is it?

Whenever I read the arguments of opponents of Medical Aid In Dying (MAID), one that constantly crops up is a religious appeal to how precious life is. For example, "Every day is a gift from God, and you can't ever let that go." That is a faith statement. I may agree with it or I may not. It may rise out of the writer's religious faith, but that doesn't mean it applies to mine. And religious faith should never be a basis for making public policy. Otherwise, we will have one person's religion controlling all others – something our founders absolutely opposed. (Continue reading ...)

September 17, 2017March 18, 2022

A response to disability rights activists’ opposition to the right to die, PART 1

Five years ago in Massachusetts, the right to autonomy in one’s body went down to defeat in a vote related to irrational fear by some disability rights advocates working through the activist group Not Dead Yet. Their position was that they would be compelled or coerced into ending their own lives if the initiative passed. (Continue reading ...)

September 3, 2017March 18, 2022

I’ll See Myself Out, Thank You: Notes on the Right to Die

Two years ago, a book of thirty essays supporting the right to assisted death edited by Colin Brewer and Michael Irwin, was published by Skyscraper Publications, Ltd. Most of the essays make arguments familiar to Americans involved in the right-to-die movement, but often with a European (and British) take that makes them fresh. Others tell first-person stories that are as riveting as any heard in the US. (Continue reading ...)

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