In a letter dated March 19, 2005, she wrote with compassion and directness a letter to the editor, which was really meant for the parents of Terri Schiavo. They were fighting to keep their daughter on life-support systems in what had become one of the most politically charged and highly public private decisions in the country at that time.
Adelaide and her husband, Joe, who died last April, had lost their son Richard when he was just 41. She urged the Schiavos to "let go."
"Fourteen years is long enough to deny Terri the peace of a dignified death," Adelaide wrote. "Her parents need to be told: Terri may be out of the reach of your hands, but she will never be out of the reach of your hearts . . ."
Although she is gone, her democrat votes will continue on to 2008 and beyond in grand tradition. I would like to think upon her death a few days ago, she suddenly had a relevation of the truth and died with the truth rather than the patent lies she embraced.
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SALEM, Oregon, March 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It is the ninth year of legal physician assisted suicide (PAS) in Oregon and the state has released its annual report on patients whose lives were ended by legal assisted suicide. This year, euthanasia opponents are pointing to the more ambiguous language in this year’s report saying that the Department of Human Services yielded to pressure by euthanasia activists to cloud the debate.
Under the Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), patients can obtain a prescription for lethal doses of self-administered medications. 65 such prescriptions were given in the last year, written by 40 different doctors. 35 patients took the drugs meant to end their lives and 11 patients used prescriptions made out in previous years, giving the total number of suicides under the DWDA as 46 during 2006, eight more than in 2005.
Unlike reports from previous years, the 2006 annual report uses the phrase, “those patients who participated in the Act” to avoid using the more direct term “physician assisted suicide”.
Eighth Annual Oregon Assisted Suicide Report Shorter with More Ambiguous Language
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