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Apr 12th - Death With Dignity Bill in Sacto
>This coming Tuesday, April 12th, the Judiciary Committee
>of the California Assembly will be considering the fate
>of Assembly Bill 654, the California Compassionate
>Choice Act, which would give California an assisted-
>dying law like that used so successfully by the
>terminally ill in Oregon.
>of the California Assembly will be considering the fate
>of Assembly Bill 654, the California Compassionate
>Choice Act, which would give California an assisted-
>dying law like that used so successfully by the
>terminally ill in Oregon.
>Dear Compassion & Choices Supporter:
>
>This coming Tuesday, April 12th, the Judiciary Committee
>of the California Assembly will be considering the fate
>of Assembly Bill 654, the California Compassionate
>Choice Act, which would give California an assisted-
>dying law like that used so successfully by the
>terminally ill in Oregon.
>
>A show of support in Sacramento on Tuesday will be
>vital for the passage of this bill by the Judiciary
>Committee and for it to move on the full Assembly.
>Your attendance is strongly requested.
>
>The Hearing is scheduled for Room 4202 (fourth floor)
>of the State Capital building, and will begin at 10:00
>am. We are encouraging our supporters to arrive closer
>to 9:00 am to ensure the best seating and that their
>names can be placed on the list outside the door as
>possible public speakers.
>
>What to Wear: If you can come, please wear yellow to show your
>support. If you don't have anything yellow to wear, we
>will have yellow Compassion & Choices T-shirts
>available for free!
>
>Transportation: We are trying to arrange
>transportation, but need to know who would like to
>come and who can drive.
>
>If you need transportation, or if can drive and are willing to take
>passengers,
>please contact me.
>
>Just know that our opponents will be present in full
>force. In February they arrived early, signed up to
>speak, filled the hearing room, and dominated the
>public testimony portion of the meeting. We strongly
>encourage you to come, and during the public testimony
>portion of the meeting to introduce yourself, tell the
>Committee that you support AB 654, and perhaps say a
>few words why you do so.
>
>When: Tuesday, April 12th, 10:00 am (arrive closer to
>9:00 am)
>
>Where: State Capital (at L Street and 11th Street)
> Room 4202 (fourth floor)
>
>If you can't come, please call your Assemblyperson at
>either their local office or at the state capital. Ask
>for one of their legislative aides, then give your
>name, tell this person that you are a constituent, that
>you support AB 654, and that you would like your
>Assemblyperson to support the bill and also to inform
>their colleagues on the Judiciary Committee about their
>support.
>
>You can find out how to contact your Assemblyperson by
>looking in the "Government" pages at the beginning of
>the White Pages of the telephone book. If you do not
>know your Assemblyperson, you can find
>your representative by going to the California Assembly
>website http://www.assembly.ca.gov/defaulttext.asp then
>click on "Find my District" on the left side of the
>page.
>
>Again, if you can come, please do so. If you can't be
>there, please call your Assemblyperson.
>
>Thank you for your continued support.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Stephen Jamison
>California Coordinator
>Compassion & Choices
>Stephen.jamison [at] sbcglobal.net
>866-569-2323
>
>This coming Tuesday, April 12th, the Judiciary Committee
>of the California Assembly will be considering the fate
>of Assembly Bill 654, the California Compassionate
>Choice Act, which would give California an assisted-
>dying law like that used so successfully by the
>terminally ill in Oregon.
>
>A show of support in Sacramento on Tuesday will be
>vital for the passage of this bill by the Judiciary
>Committee and for it to move on the full Assembly.
>Your attendance is strongly requested.
>
>The Hearing is scheduled for Room 4202 (fourth floor)
>of the State Capital building, and will begin at 10:00
>am. We are encouraging our supporters to arrive closer
>to 9:00 am to ensure the best seating and that their
>names can be placed on the list outside the door as
>possible public speakers.
>
>What to Wear: If you can come, please wear yellow to show your
>support. If you don't have anything yellow to wear, we
>will have yellow Compassion & Choices T-shirts
>available for free!
>
>Transportation: We are trying to arrange
>transportation, but need to know who would like to
>come and who can drive.
>
>If you need transportation, or if can drive and are willing to take
>passengers,
>please contact me.
>
>Just know that our opponents will be present in full
>force. In February they arrived early, signed up to
>speak, filled the hearing room, and dominated the
>public testimony portion of the meeting. We strongly
>encourage you to come, and during the public testimony
>portion of the meeting to introduce yourself, tell the
>Committee that you support AB 654, and perhaps say a
>few words why you do so.
>
>When: Tuesday, April 12th, 10:00 am (arrive closer to
>9:00 am)
>
>Where: State Capital (at L Street and 11th Street)
> Room 4202 (fourth floor)
>
>If you can't come, please call your Assemblyperson at
>either their local office or at the state capital. Ask
>for one of their legislative aides, then give your
>name, tell this person that you are a constituent, that
>you support AB 654, and that you would like your
>Assemblyperson to support the bill and also to inform
>their colleagues on the Judiciary Committee about their
>support.
>
>You can find out how to contact your Assemblyperson by
>looking in the "Government" pages at the beginning of
>the White Pages of the telephone book. If you do not
>know your Assemblyperson, you can find
>your representative by going to the California Assembly
>website http://www.assembly.ca.gov/defaulttext.asp then
>click on "Find my District" on the left side of the
>page.
>
>Again, if you can come, please do so. If you can't be
>there, please call your Assemblyperson.
>
>Thank you for your continued support.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Stephen Jamison
>California Coordinator
>Compassion & Choices
>Stephen.jamison [at] sbcglobal.net
>866-569-2323
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Please consider supporting AB 654, the California Compassionate Choices Act,
by expressing your support to the Judiciary Committee which is holding a
hearing on April 12 in Sacramento (Room 4202, State Capitol). Phone, write
or fax today to your Senator or Assemblyperson. You can find contact info
at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/memberinfo. Just enter your zip code.
Additional information about this Very Important bill can be found at
Compassion in Dying -- http://www.compassionindying.org -- and at Compassion &
Choices in Northern California -- http://www.compassionindying.org/nca.
Also on these sites you can download free Advance Directives for any state.
Please forward this post anywhere you think it would be useful.
by expressing your support to the Judiciary Committee which is holding a
hearing on April 12 in Sacramento (Room 4202, State Capitol). Phone, write
or fax today to your Senator or Assemblyperson. You can find contact info
at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/memberinfo. Just enter your zip code.
Additional information about this Very Important bill can be found at
Compassion in Dying -- http://www.compassionindying.org -- and at Compassion &
Choices in Northern California -- http://www.compassionindying.org/nca.
Also on these sites you can download free Advance Directives for any state.
Please forward this post anywhere you think it would be useful.
For more information:
http://www.compassionindying.org/nca
I believe in people's right to commit suicide, and even their right to have help doign so. But be careful that what is happening is people's informed choice in cdoing so. Often people who are sick or disabled are given up as almost like dead, and therefore their only choice is to kill themself. And worse HMOs and hospitals often feel that these patients/human beings don't have a quality of life" worth living when in fact they don''t want to spend the money to keep the patient alive. In fact be careful when the term "quality of life" is used in general. For more info on this and other questions from the position of people living with disabilities go to the website http://www.notdeadyet.org
[be careful
by deanosor Thursday, Apr. 07, 2005 at 8:40 AM
deanosor [at] comcast.net
I believe in people's right to commit suicide, and even their right to have help doign so. But be careful that what is happening is people's informed choice in cdoing so. Often people who are sick or disabled are given up as almost like dead, and therefore their only choice is to kill themself. And worse HMOs and hospitals often feel that these patients/human beings don't have a quality of life" worth living when in fact they don''t want to spend the money to keep the patient alive. In fact be careful when the term "quality of life" is used in general. For more info on this and other questions from the position of people living with disabilities go to the website http://www.notdeadyet.org ]
. . . . but, I am also concerned, as you allude in this comment, about the extent to which people can actually "consent" to assisted suicide or the deprivation of medical care
I have seen very little discussion of this issue, about the quality of "consent" and whether it can be considered to be valid
consistent with your comment, someone is diagnosed with terminal cancer (or a permanent disability, for that matter), they start undergoing treatments and then a variety of family members start making ofthanded remarks about how much the treatments cost, and the fact the person will eventually have to use their home equity and the retirement savings to pay for it, along with asides about the grandchildren and their future . . . .
if a person consents to withdrawal of medical treatment,under such circumstances, is it really a consent? and, of course, familial coercion can be much more blunt and crude than this
it seems obvious to me that a person's desire to live is directly proportional to the support that the person receives from friends and family, and the Zeynep article that I posted here last week addresses it candidly
I am likewise fearful that an underlying neoliberal economic motivation will emerge, with "right to die" being exploited for the purpose of enabling people and medical care providers to evade the cost of caring for terminally ill and disabled people
personally, I tend to believe that, even though this is problematic as well, that any consent for assisted suicide or withdrawal of treatment must be executed well in advance of any condition that would necessitate it, and possibly, even renewed after a specified period of time, with witnesses, like a will
--Richard
by deanosor Thursday, Apr. 07, 2005 at 8:40 AM
deanosor [at] comcast.net
I believe in people's right to commit suicide, and even their right to have help doign so. But be careful that what is happening is people's informed choice in cdoing so. Often people who are sick or disabled are given up as almost like dead, and therefore their only choice is to kill themself. And worse HMOs and hospitals often feel that these patients/human beings don't have a quality of life" worth living when in fact they don''t want to spend the money to keep the patient alive. In fact be careful when the term "quality of life" is used in general. For more info on this and other questions from the position of people living with disabilities go to the website http://www.notdeadyet.org ]
. . . . but, I am also concerned, as you allude in this comment, about the extent to which people can actually "consent" to assisted suicide or the deprivation of medical care
I have seen very little discussion of this issue, about the quality of "consent" and whether it can be considered to be valid
consistent with your comment, someone is diagnosed with terminal cancer (or a permanent disability, for that matter), they start undergoing treatments and then a variety of family members start making ofthanded remarks about how much the treatments cost, and the fact the person will eventually have to use their home equity and the retirement savings to pay for it, along with asides about the grandchildren and their future . . . .
if a person consents to withdrawal of medical treatment,under such circumstances, is it really a consent? and, of course, familial coercion can be much more blunt and crude than this
it seems obvious to me that a person's desire to live is directly proportional to the support that the person receives from friends and family, and the Zeynep article that I posted here last week addresses it candidly
I am likewise fearful that an underlying neoliberal economic motivation will emerge, with "right to die" being exploited for the purpose of enabling people and medical care providers to evade the cost of caring for terminally ill and disabled people
personally, I tend to believe that, even though this is problematic as well, that any consent for assisted suicide or withdrawal of treatment must be executed well in advance of any condition that would necessitate it, and possibly, even renewed after a specified period of time, with witnesses, like a will
--Richard
This is how the Holocaust started. A decade before they started exterminating Jews, the Nazis got the Holocaust rolling by killing disabled people.
For an excellent, well researched history, read BY TRUST BETRAYED: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich by Hugh Gregory Gallagher
For an excellent, well researched history, read BY TRUST BETRAYED: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich by Hugh Gregory Gallagher
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