by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Almost 750 Oregonians died from violence in 2005, with suicide accounting for the majority of those deaths. State health officials report that 555 Oregon residents killed themselves in 2005 — more than five times the amount who died from homicide. Oregon had...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Diane Coleman is president and CEO of Not Dead Yet, a national disability organization that opposes legalization of assisted suicide. Not Dead Yet is based in Rochester. People are often surprised to learn that all of the major national disability rights groups that...
by APFLI | May 11, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Retired politician Bob Rae used the occasion of a friend’s apparent suicide to call on Canada to establish a national suicide prevention plan. Chris Peloso was Rae’s friend and well known in Ontario’s political circles as the husband to George Smitherman, a former...
