Stephen Drake is the research analyst for Not Dead Yet USA. This article first published in the Rochester NY Democrat and Chronicle on October 30, 2015. Recently, you're hearing and reading a lot about "aid in dying" - a relatively new term that is increasingly used in place of "assisted suicide." You're also being told that the issues surrounding assisted suicide are simple, with the only objections coming from far-right Christian conservatives.There are many nonreligious progressives who have actively opposed legalization of assisted suicide for many years. The organization I work for is a secular disability rights group formed 19 years ago to oppose legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Thirteen other national disability rights groups also oppose legalization - many of them for over a decade. Continue reading

Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA This article first appeared in The Jurist Journal and is reproduced here from Margaret Dore's blog:California has passed a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, which is scheduled to go into effect during 2016. "The End of Life Option Act" was sold as giving patients choice and control at the end of life. The bill, in fact, is about ending the lives of people who are not necessarily dying anytime soon and giving other people the "option" to hurry them along. The bill is a recipe for elder abuse and family trauma. Continue reading

By Alex Schadenberg International Chair, Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionFor several years the Oregon suicide statistics seemed to indicate that legalizing assisted suicide had a suicide contagion effect. Continue reading

By Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Professor Theo Boer, who was a member of a regional euthanasia review committee for 9 years, and then changed his mind to now oppose legalizing euthanasia, wrote an opinion article that was published in - The Press Democrat in California.Boer argues that California Governor Jerry Brown should have talked to Holland before he signed the assisted suicide bill. Boer wrote: Continue reading

This article was published on the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBC) website By Jennifer Lahl, CBC President - October 5, 2015.It is with heavy hearts that we at the CBC report that Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law ABx2 15. California becomes the fifth state to allow physician assisted suicide after Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Vermont. Continue reading

  Testimony in strong opposition to Californian Assisted Suicide Bill, AB2x 15September 3, 2015 Continue reading

By Aaron Kheriaty writing for the Mercury News Many advocates of a California law allowing doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill individuals claim that Oregon's law offers a suitable model. But there are serious problems with the legislation in Oregon and many documented cases of abuse.I have evaluated and treated thousands of patients who wanted to end their life. A request to die is nearly always a cry for help. Among terminally ill individuals, it is associated with depression in 59 percent of cases. Yet, alarmingly, in Oregon less than 5 percent of individuals who have died by assisted suicide were ever referred for psychiatric consultation to rule out the most common causes of suicidal thinking. Continue reading

This article was published in the Wall Street Journal on August 17, 2015 and republished here from Alex Schadenberg's Blog. As a physician in Oregon, I have seen the dire effect of assisted-suicide laws on patients and my profession.By Dr William Toffler Continue reading

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Washington Times reported yesterday that the New Mexico Court of Appeal overturned Nash's activist assisted suicide decision to once again prohibit assisted suicide.The New Mexico Court of Appeals handed a defeat to the right-to-die movement Tuesday by striking down a lower-court ruling establishing physician-assisted suicide. Continue reading