Statewide Volunteer Action Team Meetings
Register now for the Zoom link. If you are an Ohio resident who believes it’s time for our great state to have a Medical Aid in Dying law sign up for our Action Team Huddles. During the first four sessions, we will be designing our volunteer action plan to raise awareness, educate and advocate for […]
Ohio needs a Medical Aid in Dying law
George Will, a Washington Post columnist, is a conservative. But that is not in conflict with his belief that terminally ill people should be able to end their lives using prescription medications. Will made his position clear in two recent pieces published in The Plain Dealer
Commentary Health Care: Medical aid in dying should not be forbidden by society’s laws
The Plain Dealer, January 23, 2022, Forum, E1 George F. Will THE WASHINGTON POST January 19, 2022 Late last year, at 3 a.m. in what is a now-normal night, Kim Hoffman awoke with “an unbelievable headache.” These are related to the 30 brain lesions, and the steroids needed to reduce the swelling of the brain. […]
Commentary: Medical aid in dying is for preventing a drawn-out death
The Plain Dealer, January 23, 2022, Forum, E6 George F. Will The Washington Post January 21, 2022 Although Amanda Villegas’s manual dexterity is hindered by her mild case of cerebral palsy, she is a gifted photographer who documented the last five days of her husband’s life with bladder cancer that metastasized. She has posted the […]
Jim O’Neil: In Addie’s Memory, It’s Time Ohio!
Click here: Write to your Legislators Right Now. It’s time Ohio… I laid my wife to rest January 13. I watched the cancer eat at her from the inside. My children and I stood vigil with her for two weeks at Hospice of Medina County before her body realized it was time to let go. […]