The question on everyone’s minds who watches the network news or reads the newspapers is — What is Dignitas?
A lot of us (even those in the field of dying) had never heard of Dignitas which is, as it turns out, a clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, run by a group engaged in assisted suicide.
And none of [...]
They used to call it “assisted suicide”; but I understand from certain lawyer friends who are at the forefront of the battle that this is no longer an acceptable term. Terminally ill people in desperate straits who wish to shorten their lives are not really committing suicide, in the opinion of my lawyer friends. And [...]
Dear Judy,
I notice you never cover this subject, maybe because you’re scared. Like Debbie Purdy, the British woman who was recently written about in the New York Times, I have MS [multiple sclerosis]– the worst kind, which is primary progressive. I too am in my late 40’s, and I don’t want to live this way.
For [...]
Dear Judy,
I haven’t seen you tackle this much. Maybe you’re scared and think you’ll be arrested and charged with aiding or abetting. My mother, when she was healthy and younger, always told me that if she did contract some terrible illness, she didn’t want it to go on and on. She wanted it to end, [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009