Letters to the Editor
Health Plan and Assisted Suicide. Letters to the editor in response.
This great letter to the editor or the Seattle Times, written by Elenor Schoen in response to Maureen O' Hagen's article lauding Compassion and Choices eerie press conference celebrating Washington's first six months of assisted suicide deaths.
Unpublished Letter to the Editor (The Seattle Times), September 9th, 2009
Health Plan and Assisted Suicide. Letters to the editor in response.
Take a look at this letter to the editor written by True Compassion Advocates' President Eileen Geller.
The Washington Post, August 5th, 2009
Death with Dignity: What do we advise our clients? Letters to the editor in response.
Check out these excellent letters to the editor written in reference to Margaret Dore's Washington Bar article.
WSBA, July, 2009
Death with Dignity: What do we advise our clients? Letters to the editor in response.
Excellent letters to the editor in response to Margaret Dore's King County Bar Bulletin article of May, 2009. The letters by Dr Reichel and Teresa Schrempp note the many problems with legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia in Holland as well as Washington's so-called Death with Dignity Act. June 2009 Bar Bulletin.
William Reichel, M.D.,Teresa Schrempp, J.D., King County Bar Bulletin, June, 2009
Oregon demonstrated it had no problem solving economic difficulties by risking the lives of its most vulnerable citizens. Could other states find this "necessary," with assisted suicide seen as a solution?
Elenor K. Schoen, Seattle P-I, Oct. 31, 2008
Suicide is legal, involving others is not
The Monday letter, "Decisions belong to individuals," is misinformed when it defends I-1000 on the basis of individual autonomy. I-1000 does not give the writer any more rights than she already has.
I. Eric Rommen, M.D., Everett Herald, Oct. 13, 2008
Majority of doctors oppose I-1000
The Times article "Doctors divided on assisted suicide" [Local News, Sept. 22] suggests doctors are evenly split on the issue, which is not the case.
Mary P. Coday, M.D., Seattle Times, Sept. 24, 2008
I-1000 isn't limited to terminally ill
Advocate Jack Leversee fears artificial life support and uses that as his argument for a right to lethal medication.
Melanie Lermusik, Seattle Times, Sept. 24, 2008
Society has learned to treat the weak among us with a kind of detached pity, like the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Jerald Zito, Tri-City Herald, Sept. 24, 2008
I-1000 is not a reasonable solution
When we find ourselves in a hopeless situation we need counseling, love, and assistance - not a push over the edge.
Laura Strzelec, Seattle Times, Sept. 22, 2008
Initiative is, in fact, a terminally bad solution
I applaud Margaret Dore's piece urging "no" on I-1000, the "Death With Dignity" initiative and the decision by the King County Bar Association to decline to support it.
Jeffrey Golin, Seattle Times, Aug. 22, 2008
'No' to Assisted Suicide: An open letter to Gov. Booth Gardner
If it's about the individual having power over how their life ends, aren?t you really inviting government into very private and personal situation?
Chris Carlson, Inland Register, April 10, 2008