The New York Times

There Are Ways to Die With Dignity, but Not Like This

Dr. Dugdale is a physician and an ethicist at Columbia University and the author of the book “The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom.” Early in my medical career, I was shocked to learn that ...
The New York Times

What Is ‘Dying With Dignity’?

Readers respond to a doctor’s essay about the drawbacks of medical-aid-in-dying measures. To the Editor: Re “The Big Flaw in New York’s Assisted Suicide Bill,” by L.S. Dugdale (Opinion guest essay, ...
Yahoo

Death with dignity or slippery slope? Senate committee hears end-of-life bill testimony

CONCORD — Faced with suffering at the end of his life, Portsmouth resident Mark Kaplan’s father chose to stop eating and drinking in order to die. “It wasn't the kind of conclusion to his life that he ...
JSTOR Daily

Death with "dignity": The wedge that divides the disability rights movement from the right to die movement

Politics and the Life Sciences, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 17-32 (16 pages) Much of the American debate over physician assisted death (PAD) is framed as an ideological split between ...
PBS

RFK; Dying with Dignity; Processed Meats

The panelists discuss the impact RFK will have on the elections. Will he help Trump or Biden? Next they talk about a bill that allows a terminally ill person to end his/her own life. Should it be ...
Missoulian

People living with disabilities support death with dignity

“If you have a terminal illness, and are in great pain, I think you should have the right to end your life … It is discrimination against the disabled to deny them the right… that able-bodied people ...
New York Post

Don’t push people with disabilities like me to give up their lives by legalizing doctor-assisted suicide

New York's proposed Medical Aid in Dying Act threatens to undo the presumption that doctors need to do everything they can to save lives, Dovie Eisner writes. M-SUR - stock.adobe.com Last September, I ...
WKRN-TV

Oregon’s Death with Dignity law replicated in other states

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — An estimated 66% of Americans said assisted suicide should be legal. Today, it’s legal in ten states and Washington D.C. News 2 ‘s Mark Kelly spoke with the law’s original ...
Newsday

Musings: Give the terminally ill who are suffering a choice

The British Parliament recently passed a law that would legalize medical aid in dying (MAID) in England and Wales. Although polling shows support for MAID by most New Yorkers regardless of age, gender ...
Hosted on MSN

‘Hardest decision’ to support assisted dying Bill, MP with disability says

A Labour MP who has lived with a disability all her life has described her decision to support the assisted dying Bill as “one of the hardest that I have had to make”. Disabled people and disability ...
Times Union

Commentary: Medical Aid in Dying Act endangers people with disabilities

New York is at a crossroads with the Medical Aid in Dying Act. While supporters frame the bill as a compassionate measure to offer choice to those facing terminal illness, the truth is far more ...