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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. [...] ...

By Stephen Mendelsohn | March 6, 2015 The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly has twice rejected doctor-prescribed suicide legislation after hearing testimony about the dangers it posed to seniors and people with disabilities. Some 140 attempts to legalize assisted suicide in other states have also been rejected. Led by a vocal disability community, opposition to assisted suicide cannot be reduced to soundbites. Death is far too important for six-word slogans like “My [...] ...

For the third time in as many years, a bill to legalize assisted suicide has been introduced in the California Legislature. At first glance, it seems like a merciful policy. But a closer look uncovers many reasons legalization would be a dangerous mistake. For this reason, it is opposed by a broad coalition that includes many disability rights organizations, the American Medical Association and other medical groups, the American Cancer Society, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals (which does anti-poverty work in poor communities) and many other organizations. While religious groups are in the mix, the opposition to assisted suicide is a broad coalition of left, right and center. Why such a spectrum of resistance to something that seems so humane?...

Posted on Thu, Mar. 01, 2007, San Jose Mercury News By Marilyn Golden For the third time in as many years, a bill to legalize assisted suicide has been introduced in the California Legislature. At first glance, it seems like a merciful policy. But a closer look uncovers many reasons legalization would be a dangerous mistake. For this reason, it is opposed by a broad coalition that includes many disability rights organizations, the American Medical Association and other medical groups, the American [...] ...

Another Perspective By Diane Coleman “I don’t want to live like this one more day,” she said firmly. “I’ve had enough.” She had been forced, at 26, to leave her masters program. Her car had been repossessed. Following a miscarriage, her marriage had broken up. Her brother had drowned. And now her mother had been diagnosed with cancer. One night, she turned up in a hospital, moaning that she just wanted to die. She was a competent adult, and her reasons for living were gone, so the [...] ...

...“The drugs used are safe and effective.” Same dosage of same drugs are used in the Netherlands for physician-assisted suicide, and 3 different reports found 16%,[27] 20%[28] and 25%[29] “failure rate” (patient didn’t die) so that subsequent lethal injection had to be given to cause death. OR MDs say they have switched to liquid form of pentobarbital, but the only liquid form available is approved by the FDA for injection only. “Economic factors are not the issue; only 2% of patients who have died under the Act report finances as a reason.” OR Medicaid pays for physician-assisted suicide, but denies payment for >150 medical services.[30] Qual Med HMO pays for physician-assisted suicide, but has a $1,000 cap on hospice care.[31] Med Director of Kate Cheney’s HMO wrote her prescription after 2 of his MD’s declined.[32] “The data reported by the...

Disability rights groups, typically supportive of individual liberty, have helped defeat bills out of fear that HMOs would see a chance to cut care. See the original article at the Los Angeles Times August 06, 2007 | James Ricci | Times Staff Writer Five times in the last dozen years, bills on medically assisted suicide have risen in the California Assembly, and five times they have failed. In every instance, a great deal of the credit for their demise goes to a constituency associated with advancing personal choice and civil rights — namely, the disability rights movement. The latest attempt, Assembly Bill 374, which its backers called the [...] ...

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 [...] ...