Weeks 35 & 36/2016 in the Death with Dignity Movement

In the weeks from August 29 to September 11, 2016:

• Reports emerged in Colorado on the amount of money proponents and opponents of Prop 106, a physician-assisted death ballot measure, have raised thru August.
• Conversations around assisted dying continued in Iowa, Michigan, and New York.

Colorado

• “Time has come to allow death with dignity,” Pueblo Chieftain, 9/3/2016
• “John Young: Don’t bring God into death-with-dignity debate,” Coloradoan, 9/7/2016
• “Money, In And Out Of State, Rolls Into Colorado Campaigns,” CPR, 9/8/2016
• “Proposed right-to-die amendment draws big donations,” Coloradoan, 9/9/2016
  

Elsewhere

• California: “Round-up of physician aid in dying news in California,” GeriPal, 9/2/2016
• Iowa: “Dubuque County woman pushing lawmakers for right to die legislation,” KCRG-ABC, 9/6/2016
• Michigan: “Politics & Prejudices: The right to die revisited,” Detroit Metro Times, 9/7/2016
• New York: “Terminally ill patients should decide their fate,” Poughkeepsie Journal, 9/5/2016

Other Stories

• “Q&A: What you should know about right to die,” USA Today, 9/8/2016

Featured image by Mr. Peebles.