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Living Will Hyperbole Is Disingenuous to American Elders

In the so-called “town hall” meetings debating the Obama Administration’s controversial health care reform plan, shrill cries of “euthanizing old people” to characterize potentially productive doctor-patient conversations concerning end-of-life issues have distorted the discourse and may cause real harm.READ»

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My Favorite Bookmarks - Todd Michael Krim

Picks from the head of FinalThoughts.comREAD»

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Sunday, April 19, 2009 Cocaine, Pot, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide...All together now

f it is going to be legal in Orgeon the Hemlock Society (I’ve read their foundation’s material), can legally offer drugs assisting persons’ in taking their own lives, and, the drug recipes thereof implicit for cooking up ones’ own suicide, why ought cocaine and pot be illegal in Oregon then (?) I want to know lawmakers (please); this comment doubly applies to all you left leaning liberals considering the idea of instituting the idea into law in other states in America. READ»

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End of Life Treatment for Seniors

A little talked about proposal greatly concerns U.S. seniors; the end-of-life treatment provisions in the Patient Self-Determination Act.READ»