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As I have warned here before, euthanasia activists are pushing for laws that permit people to write advance directives ordering themselves starved to death if they become mentally incapacitated. That effort is apparently gaining steam. The assisted suicide supporting organization Final Exit Network published a poll that supposedly found only 15 percent of respondents would oppose. Here’s how the question was worded as quoted in the pro-euthanasia crusading bioethicist Thaddeus Mason Pope’s blog:
Some people also propose that individuals with early stage dementia, who are still competent, should be able to stipulate for their future incompetent selves, that they want food and drink withdrawn and for doctors to keep them comfortable so they can die peacefully
Pandemic is pounding away at our mental health
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Nancy Lanthier Carroll | 10:00 am, Mar. 5, 2021 ×
Mental health is currently vogue in politics. Perhaps it’s because of the large suicide numbers recorded during COVID-19 and the others we may have missed.
There is a destructive gene in my family that combines major depression with general anxiety disorder. There are millions of families like mine. Unlike people with epilepsy or cerebral palsy, we display no physical symptoms.
There are many strains of this disease. I will share my experience and why people like me may choose suicide.
Ironically, most major belief systems or religions promise a better life after this one, so logic would assume that if we are miserable, death is the answer. Extreme cases like mine often view life and death differently than others. I am a member of the Final Exit Network and believe in the right to die for adults capable of making that decision. Family and close friends ar
Roslyn Denard, 96
Roslyn Denard, a long time resident of Princeton, died at the age of 96 on December 31
st at Stonebridge in Skillman, NJ.
Roz was born and raised in Brooklyn New York and graduated with a degree in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She was married to her loving husband, Norman, of 73 years. Norm and Roz moved to Princeton in the early 50’s where they created a wonderful home for their 3 children.
In 1962 Roz started working at the Princeton Packet, selling classified ads over the phone and retired 32 years later as General Manager of the group of 13 regional newspapers. Throughout her tenure with the Packet her business passion never waned.
to talk about. if it were me, is there ever a point i would want to end that suffering. we re talking about assisted suicide only legal strictly speaking in two states, washington and oregon. that leaves a lot of desperate people who struggle with painful conditions. one group has made it their mission to try to ease that misery. as i found out from my investigation, some families and law enforcement think they have gone too far. when she passed away, she didn t leave much behind. this is pretty much jana s life, a notebook of her medical history, doctors, labs, prescriptions. is the jana s older sister, vicki and she and her husband, tom, lived in the same town as jana did and saw her suffer. while she had trouble most of her life, it had become progressively worse. it was very tough for her daily. she took lots of different medicines to make her feel better. did she ever complain of physical pain? all the time. she thought she was seriously ill. and then vicki