Florida Man Exits Bed in Middle of Night for Car Break-in Alert. Then He Goes after Crook — Still Wearing Superhero Pajamas.

Police in Cape Coral, Florida, said officers responded just after 2 a.m. Wednesday to a burglary in progress at a home in the southeast part of the city. Kyle Myvett told detectives he had gone to bed when his home security cameras alerted him to someone breaking into his vehicle, police said.  

Presumably without a second to spare, Myvett never bothered to change out of his pajamas before going into superhero mode.

Colorado Assisted Suicide Report

Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition 

The 2023 Colorado assisted suicide report indicates that assisted suicide poison prescriptions and deaths have continued to rise every year since legalization.

Even though the number of assisted suicide deaths is continually increasing [,] Colorado Governor Gary Polis signed Senate Bill 24-068 on June 5 to expand their State assisted suicide law. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has expanded their law.

The Colorado assisted suicide report indicated that in 2023 there were 389 lethal poison prescriptions written, which was up by more than 22% from 318 in 2022, 218 in 2021 and 185 in 2020.

Colorado Loosens Safeguards on Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia

By Meg Wingerter, additional information provided by Margaret Dore.

Colorado loosened regulations on medical aid in dying, also known as assisted suicide, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.  

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis [pictured here] signed Senate Bill 68, which shortened the bill's waiting period for terminally ill people who wish to end their lives with a drug cocktail to seven days. Under the previous law, people with less than six months to live had to request the medication twice, at least 15 days apart, before they could receive it.

The law also will open access to medical aid in dying in Colorado to non-residents, and allow advanced practice registered nurses to prescribe the medication cocktail. APRNs can prescribe most other drugs.

Nearly Every State That Has Legalized Assisted Suicide, Has Expanded Its Law

By Alex Schadenberg (pictured here)

In 2019 Oregon expanded their assisted suicide law by giving doctors the ability to waive the 15 day waiting period when a person was deemed near to death. In 2023 Oregon removed the residency requirement extending assisted suicide nationally to anyone.

In 2021 California expanded their assisted suicide law by reducing the waiting period from 15 days to 48 hours. It forced doctors who oppose assisted suicide to be complicit in the process (later struck down by the court), and it forced all medical institutions to post their policy on assisted suicide.

Colorado Governor Signs Bill Reducing Patient Protections

Governor Polis (pictured here) signed SB068, an amendment to Colorado’s End of Life Options Act (assisted suicide and euthanasia) into law on June 5, 2024. 

The bill reduces the waiting period for patients seeking an aid-in-dying prescription (assisted suicide and euthanasia), from 15 to 7 days, increases the number of practitioners who can participate in the law, and allows providers to waive the waiting period if the patient is not likely to survive more than 48 hours and meets all other qualifications. 

My Mum Didn't Die

Good morning. I’m Anita Cameron, Director of Minority Outreach for Not Dead Yet, a national, grassroots disability organization opposed to medical discrimination, healthcare rationing, euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Assisted suicide laws are dangerous because though these laws are supposed to be for people with six months or less to live, doctors are often wrong about a terminal diagnosis. In 2009, while living in Washington state, my mother was determined to be at the end stage of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. I was told her death was imminent, that if I wanted to see her alive, I should get there in two days. She rallied, but was still quite ill, so she was placed in hospice. Her doctor said that her body had begun the process of dying.

Law Punctuated by a Question Mark

Joey Bunch, ColoradoPolitics.com

Click here to view the article as published.

No one expects to pass a law that's going to have problems, but it's hardly uncommon to have those told-ya-so moments that offer hollow gratification for those who opposed it from the start. When it comes to governing life and death, these stumbles deserve a longer look.

Jakob Rodgers of The Gazette recently reported on the first data from Colorado's medical-aid-in-dying law, which voters passed in 2016. Sixty-nine people sought prescriptions to end their lives, and 50 of them reportedly picked up the lethal drugs from a pharmacist.

We don't know how many died by choice, or what happened to the deadly prescriptions, if any, that weren't used. Voters passed a law that doesn't require the state health department to keep track of that kind of information.

Physician-Assisted Suicide Traumatic for Family Members

By Margaret Dore, Esq.

In 2012, a European research study addressed trauma suffered by persons who witnessed legal assisted suicide in Switzerland.[1] The study found that one out of five family members or friends present at an assisted suicide was traumatized. These people,

experienced full or sub-threshold PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) related to the loss of a close person through assisted suicide.[2]

In Oregon, Other Suicides Have Increased with Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
A pdf version can be viewed here 
and here

Since the passage of Oregon’s law allowing physician-assisted suicide, other suicides in Oregon have steadily increased. This is consistent with a suicide contagion in which the legalization of physician-assisted suicides has encouraged other suicides. 

Prop. 106 Legalizes Euthanasia

Kenneth Stevens MD

To view similar information in a pdf format, see "Dore Memo Opposing Prop. 106," which can be viewed here and here.

By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA

Prop. 106 is sold as physician-assisted suicide in which a patient self-administers the lethal dose. In the fine print, Prop. 106 also allows euthanasia. This is true for two reasons: (1) Prop. 106 defines "medical aid in dying" (a euphemism for assisted suicide and euthanasia) as a "medical practice;" and (2) on close examination, self administration is not required.[1] See below.

"Even if a patient struggled, who would know?"

By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA

Prop. 106 allows the death by lethal dose to occur in private without supervision.[1] The drugs used are water and alcohol soluble, such that they can be administered to a restrained or sleeping person without consent.[2] Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, puts it this way:

Prop. 106 Will Create New Paths of Elder Abuse

To view similar information in a pdf format, go to "Dore Memo Opposing Prop. 106," which can be viewed here and here.

By Margaret Dore, Esq, MBA

Elder abuse is already a problem in Colorado. Passage of Prop. 106 will make it worse. See below.

If Colorado follows Oregon’s interpretation of “six months to live,” assisted suicide will be legalized for people with insulin dependent diabetes

William Toffler, MD

To view this information in a pdf format, go to "Dore Memo Opposing Prop. 106," which can be viewed here and here.

By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA

Prop. 106 applies to patients whose terminal illness is incurable and irreversible and which has been medically confirmed and will within reasonable medical judgment, result in death “within six months.”[1]

"Taking the language of Prop. 106 to its logical conclusion, an adult child is legally allowed to administer the lethal dose to his or her parent"

Margaret Dore, Esq.

To view similar information in a pdf format, see "Dore Memo Opposing Prop. 106," which can be viewed here and here.

By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA

Prop. 106 is sold as physician-assisted suicide in which a patient self-administers the lethal dose. In the fine print, Prop. 106 also allows euthanasia. This is true for two reasons: (1) Prop. 106 defines "medical aid in dying" (a euphemism for assisted suicide and euthanasia) as a "medical practice;" and (2) on close examination, self administration is not required.[1] See below.

Patients May Have Years or Decades to Live

William Toffler, MD

To view similar information in a pdf format, see "Dore Memo Opposing Prop. 106," which can be viewed here and here. 

By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA

Prop. 106 applies to "terminal" persons predicted to have "less than six months to live." Such persons may actually have years or decades, to live. This is true for three reasons.

John Norton, A Cautionary Tale

John Norton

By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA

In March 2012, I watched John Norton testify before the Joint Judiciary Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature. A person with ALS (Lou Gerhig's disease), he had been told at age 18 or 19 that he would die in three to five years from paralysis. Below find his story, at age 74, as set forth in this affidavit: 

Beware of Vultures: Senator Jennifer Fielder on Compassion & Choices

"I found myself wondering, 'Where does all the lobby money come from?' If it really is about a few terminally ill people who might seek help ending their suffering, why was more money spent on promoting assisted suicide than any other issue in Montana?"

By Senator Jennifer Fielder

As we wrangled through the budget this spring, the beautiful state capitol began to feel like a big, ripe carcass with a dark cloud of vultures circling about.  

Senator Jennifer Fielder

The magnitude of money in government attracts far more folks who want to be on the receiving end than it does those who just want fair and functional government. Until that ratio improves, it may be impossible to rein in unnecessary regulation and spending. 

Special interest groups spent over $6 million dollars on lobbyists to pressure Montana legislators during the 2013 session. Seems like a lot of money, until you compare it to the billions of taxpayer dollars at stake. Does the average taxpayer stand a chance against organized forces like that?

Compassion & Choices' Mission is to Promote Suicide

Hemlock 

The push to enact Prop. 106 is being spearheaded by the suicide advocacy group, Compassion & Choices.

Compassion & Choices was formed in 2004 as the result of a merger/takeover of two other organizations.[1] One of these organizations was the former Hemlock Society, originally formed by Derek Humphry.[2]

Even Law Enforcement is Denied Access to Information

In Oregon, even law enforcement is denied access to information about cases under Oregon’s law. Alicia Parkman, Mortality Specialist for the Oregon Health Authority, states:

We have been contacted by law enforcement and legal representatives in the past, but have not provided identifying information of any type.  (Emphasis added).[1]

Oregon attorney Isaac Jackson provides a similar account:

The [police] officer’s report . . . describe[d] that he was unable to get . . . information from the Oregon Health Authority . . . . [2]

Oregon’s Data Cannot be Verified

The State of Oregon (the Oregon Health Authority) publishes annual statistical reports about the people who died under Oregon’s law.  Much of this data cannot be verified due to a lack of record keeping and the destruction of source documentation. According to the Oregon Health Authority:

The identity of participating physicians is coded, but the identity of individual patients is not recorded in any manner.  Approximately one year from the publication of the Annual Report, all source documentation is destroyed.  (Emphasis added).[1]