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Table of Contents Introduction Few Helped, Many Harmed: Disability Prejudice and the Damage to Society Legal Alternatives Avoid A Great Harm Fear, Bias, and Prejudice against Disability A Deadly Mix: Managed Health Care and Assisted Suicide An Ailing System Made Worse Deteriorating Health Care in Oregon The Broad Indirect Impacts on Health Care The Failure of Safeguards and the Case of Oregon The Myth of Free Choice and Self-Determination The Fundamental Loophole of Terminal Illness Prognosis Safeguards in Name Only Doctor Shopping: All Roads Lead to Rome Alternatives: Presented But Not Provided Good Faith: A Safeguard for Doctors, Not Patients The Danger to People with Depression and Psychiatric Disabilities Depression and the Wish to Die Ignoring What Lies Beneath: The Abandonment of the Patient One Visit, Rarely: The Impact on the Individual Minimal Data and Fatally Flawed Oversight The Questionable...

Marilyn Golden Policy Analyst Prologue In 1999, faced with a bill in the California legislature to legalize assisted suicide, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) joined ten other nationally prominent disability organizations in adopting a position against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.[1] The 1999 California bill went down to defeat, due in part to an opposition coalition spanning the political spectrum from left to right. That coalition represented disability rights [...] ...

Association of Northern California Oncologists and Medical Oncology Association of Southern California April 16, 2007 The Association of Northern California Oncologists and the Medical Oncology Association of Southern California, which together represent nearly 600 oncologists in both community practice and academic medicine, oppose the legalization of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and urge Assembly Members to vote NO on AB 374. Physician-assisted suicide is the wrong answer to the right question. [...] ...

May 25, 2006 Testimony Before the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee On the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights Diane Coleman, J.D. President Not Dead Yet 7521 Madison Street Forest Park, IL 60130 708-209-1500 ext. 11 Fax 708-209-1735 Email: ndycoleman@aol.com www.notdeadyet.org Introduction Personal History Mr. Chairman, Vice-Chairman, members, thank you for the opportunity to address this Subcommittee. My name is Diane Coleman. I have a Juris Doctorate and Masters in Business Administration from the [...] ...

By Steve Doughty, Social Affairs Correspondent 11 June 2015 Report says thousands have been killed despite not asking their doctor Thousands killed under GP care despite not asking to die, report says One in 60 deaths involves someone ‘who has not requested euthanasia’ Half of patients killed without giving their consent were over the age of 80 Thousands of elderly people have been killed by their own GPs without ever asking to die under Belgium’s euthanasia laws, an academic report said yesterday. Image removed Around one in every 60 deaths of a patient under GP care in Belgium involves someone who has not requested euthanasia, according to a new report published by the Journal of Medical EthicsIt said that around one in every 60 deaths of a patient under GP care [...] ...

DREDF, along with numerous other nationally prominent disability organizations, opposes the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Legalization is a serious mistake for many reasons that are not always immediately apparent. Supporters often focus solely on issues of choice and self-determination, but actually, legalization would restrict choice and self-determination. It is crucial to look deeper. For example, assisted suicide would be a deadly mix with our broken, profit-driven health [...] ...

Diane Coleman, J.D. Introduction On March 24, 1997, the National Council on Disability issued “Assisted Suicide: A Disability Perspective,” becoming one of the first prominent national disability organizations to address the controversial topic. At the time the Position Paper was issued, the U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to rule on appeals from the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts, each of which had declared assisted suicide a constitutional right. After a thorough review of the forms of discrimination [...] ...

H. Rex Greene, MD 1820 Ogden Dr. Suite 200 Burlingame, CA 94010 Hematology-Oncology, Palliative Medicine, and Gerontology (650) 697-720 Feb 22,2006 Council on Ethical Affairs California Medical Association Oakland, CA Re: Opposition to neutrality on AB 651 Dear Colleagues, As a board certified hematologist-oncologist, a palliative care/hospice physician and a member of the CMA Council on Ethical Affairs for the past 18 years I have been closely involved with the issue of legalization of euthanasia. [...] ...

By: Laura Petrillo, MD (@lpetrillz) Posted August 21, 2015 | in GeriPal The End of Life Options Act, which would legalize physician-assisted suicide, was stalled in the California legislature earlier this summer and seemingly shelved until next year. But in a surprise move, lawmakers introduced a new bill with the same purpose on Tuesday, during a special session on healthcare financing called by Governor [...] ...