New York Against Assisted Suicide

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Public Letter To New York Governor Cuomo and Legislators

New York Against Assisted Suicide, Inc.

P.O. Box 7350

Hicksville, N.Y. 11802

March 31, 2020

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PUBLIC LETTER TO New York

GOVERNOR CUOMO AND LEGISLATORS

Sunday, January 5, 2020

Amid An Embroiled Case - New York Woman Speaks

Arline Lester, celebrated her 91st birthday on New Years Day, 2020. To everyone's surprise, she started talking. Ed Lester, Arline's son, said he had not heard her speak since her tracheotomy. Her first words that day were, “What did you say?”, clearly heard by all in the room. Ed Lester, was talking to his friend about his mother's heart-breaking case and the trouble that she was in. According to Ed, his brother (whose name we won’t reveal) wants his mother dead. There is an old Living Will and apparently a new Living Will, an old Proxy Healthcare document and a new Healthcare Proxy document. According to Ed, prior to both new documents, Arline Lester was evaluated by a psychiatrist and deemed to have her mental capacity to make decisions. According to Ed, his mother revoked her old living will and her old healthcare proxy document. Now, this is being evaluated by a Judge in Nassau County brought on by Ed's brother. According to Ed, his brother wants his mother dead and so Ed fears that if the new healthcare proxy is not honored, he will lose his mother.

Arline Lester and her son, Ed

Arline is Mensa, was divorced and left to raise two young boys. Arline worked for 25 years as a Math teacher in PS 125 in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She was also a professor in a Brooklyn College until she was 88 years old. Her cousin attests that she was loved by everyone. Arline is presently in the hospital recovering from a leg amputation.

Being very surprised by his mother speaking, Ed first wanted to know if his mother was in pain. Ed's friend asked Arline. First, the friend called Arline by name. Arline responds with turning her head to look at Ed’s friend. The friend then asked if she was in pain. Arline shook her head “no”. Arline then spoke again when the friend said “Thank you”. Arline replied politely saying “Thank you”, as though showing her appreciation for the kind attention shown her.

Ed had told his friend that the pain medication was probably wearing off allowing Arline to communicate. This new activity by Arline is critical since the legal case was started in early December 2019 by Ed’s brother. The legal case has caused a temporary guardian to be appointed by a Judge in Nassau County. The case has also interrupted his mother applying for Community Medicaid. The trial is set for Monday, January 6, 2020.

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK

This is not about pulling the plug.

By Dawn C. Eskew

One thing needs to be made very clear here. I have noticed that as I went around speaking and educating on the facts of New York's 2020 assisted suicide bill, so many people think this is about pulling the plug. Let me make this very clear here, assisted suicide bills are not about pulling the plug. In fact that case has been decided over 20 years ago through the federal Patient Self Determination Act, 1990. Assisted suicide bills are about receiving a lethal drug to commit suicide, or even euthanasia - which means a person killing another person with or without their permission. Now, this should begin to give you an indication of what is in assisted suicide bills.

With that said, I will answer a few questions that I've been asked during the info campaign we've been on: What is this assisted suicide bill in New York? Why do we call it the "assisted suicide" bill and not the name the euthanasia society gives it? What is in the assisted suicide bill? What will it do? Why is it a bad policy bill?

I will not mention names of organizations involved with pushing this agenda, because there are those people I have met who told me their heart breaking stories of losing their loved ones who went to those organizations. This is a hard topic to teach, but it needs to be known in order to protect all of you reading this.

I'll begin with the facts that there are certain organizations which have been around for a number of years whose sole purpose was to assist a person's suicide, whether they were ill or not. The founder was very open about the purpose of his mission. However, after a few years, some people wanted to change the name of the organization in order to appear "nicer", more "acceptable" to the America Society. In order for them to now enter the realm of legislation, they needed a name for their bill that would also be appealing to non-knowing citizens. The name of the Bill in New York is called "Medical Aid in Dying". To un-informed individuals, this could sound like a nice bill. In actuality, it is very far from the truth and is historically a euphemism for euthanasia.

In 2015, a law suit was submitted to NY State for the legalization to assist at a person's suicide. It is the outcome of this lawsuit which spelled out what this agenda is all about. Every court from the lowest court in New York to the highest court in New York denied legality to assisting someone's suicide. The highest NY Court -"The New York State Court of Appeals" - said that the plaintiff's request was absolutely about assisting a person's suicide (something that breaks statutory law: a felony). The judges voted unanimously against the plaintiffs. It is because these very intelligent and highly educated individual judges who investigated this case, who called the act "assisting a person's suicide", that we too call it assisting a suicide. Is this what New York needs while there is a suicide contagion within our youth these days? Absolutely not!

The current assisted suicide bill (currently 2019 - 2020 Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Bill NY State Assembly Bill #2694 same as NY State Senate Bill #3947), contains many flaws. For one, even though the sponsors of the Bill say there are "safeguards" built in, how safe could a lethal drug be sitting in a person's home while an impatient heir - who has rights to the person's estate - can do unimaginable things to the person behind closed doors. One flaw is that there is no over-site. Plus, the person's death certificate would be signed by the doctor, "death by natural causes". How are valid statistics kept if the real cause of death is hidden?

The set up of legalized assisted suicide is a "recipe for elder abuse" (Dore, 2012), increases suicide contagion (NCD, 2019), sends the wrong message to our youth (Jones, 2018), causes PTSD (Wagner, Muller, & Maercker, 2012) for those family members who observed their loved ones commit assisted suicide. These atrocities and a slew of other serious dangers can be found listed in this study from the United States Government: https://ncd.gov/sites/default/files/NCD_Assisted_Suicide_Report_508.pdf

In short, "Medical Aid In Dying", a term historically used for euthanasia, poses a serious danger to the public, our youth and society. This statement is supported by many studies. Legalized assisted suicide/euthanasia is a tool that will destroy the academic excellence of research and science in the United States of America, as doctors forget how to treat illnesses or diseases.

This is not about pulling the plug, but about giving the government, doctors, pharmacists, family members and friends, a license and the ability to kill an innocent person without consent, behind closed doors, while the heir to the estate and all others listed above are not held accountable if suspicion or error occurs.

REFERENCES

Dore, M. (2012). Assisted Suicide Laws Are a Recipe for Elder Abuse, Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/10/why-do-americans-balk-at-euthanasia-laws/assisted-suicide-laws-are-a-recipe-for-elder-abuse

Jones, D. A. (May 2018), Assisted Dying and Suicide Prevention, Journal of Disability and Religion, Volume 22, 2018 - Issue 3: Special Issue on Disability and Euthanasia, Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/23312521.2018.1486773?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Wagner, B., Müller, J., & Maercker, A. (2012). Death by request in Switzerland: Posttraumatic stress disorder and complicated grief after witnessing assisted suicide. European Psychiatry, 27(7), 542–546. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.12.003

National Council on Disability (October, 2019). The Danger of Assisted Suicide Laws. Retrieved from https://ncd.gov/sites/default/files/NCD_Assisted_Suicide_Report_508.pdf

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

NY's ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL BELONGS IN THE GARBAGE, NOT IN OUR LIVES!

ON May 15, 2019 New York Against Assisted Suicide ©, 501.c4

had invited everyone to

our press conference to present New Yorkers' voices

against the pending NY assisted suicide Bill.

Following our press conference, we were invited into the Assembly

Chambers where the votings were take place.

To our surprise, we were then introduced to the Assembly when a loud thunder

of applause resounded as we were thanked for the work we

do to protect New York from the bad policy bill of

assisting someone's suicide.

GUESS WHO WAS WITNESSING ALL OF THIS?

OUR YOUTH VISITING THEIR CAPITAL THAT DAY!

You see them in the balcony in this video! :)

LET'S SHOW THEM WE CARE ABOUT THEM AND THEIR FUTURE!

SIGN THE PETITION NOW!
Here: https://www.nyagainstas.com

As suicide prevention is a huge agenda in New York State,
there are proponents pushing assisting a suicide.

This sends the wrong message to our youth!

HELP US TO KILL THIS BILL (not our youth) and
PUT IT IN THE GARBAGE
WHERE IT BELONGS!

Thank you!

Thursday, November 8, 2018

NY Against AS Urges Congress, Don't Pour Money Into A System That Can't Manage Itself!

Federal Congress Bill Wants To 'Help' by Pouring
Money Into System Which Can't Manage Itself - Ethically.
NY Against AS Foresees Many NYers Lives At Stake & Urges
"Fix The System First"!

"The "Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, bills H.R. 1676 and S. 693, were proposed in 2017 and viewed as noncontroversial." MargaretDore.com

New York Against Assisted Suicide found the federal Bill, "Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act", to be not only controversial but also detrimental to New York State. All New Yorkers know that fraud and abuse fraud and abuse exists in every aspect of New York living, the unfortunate consequences of residing in New York State.

A point to remind Congress, New York is also home to the NY Stock Exchange and multitude of banking industries, where in 2008, the big news at the time was the "Big Bank Bail Out" according to Forbes Magazine. President Bush signed the $700 billion bank bailout bill on October 3, 2008. The official name of the bill that was passed and signed was the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The infamous bailout could not correct the major problem which was the unethical practices that were performed by unethical bankers. Much of the bailout lead to greater bonus' at Christmas time, two months following the bailout.

New York Against Assisted Suicide urges the Senate in Congress to not pass a Bill that would grab American tax payor money and dump it into the Palliative and Hospice system that is riddled with stealth euthanasia, NY laws that lead to unethical practices and a majorly Soros funded, assisted suicide agenda. Vote "NO" on The Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, Bills H.R. 1676 and S. 693.

Friday, October 26, 2018

NYagainstAS Opposes Congress Bill 'PaCHETA'

"New York Against Assisted Suicide adds its voice in opposition to the Palliative and Hospice Care Education and Training Act. Here's why:

New York Against Assisted Suicide
together with other organizations and
private concerned citizens, who have
felt the brunt of abuse and fraud through
the medicare and medicare system,
presented a voice of opposition to the
HR 1676 / S. 693 Bill.

Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, S. 693 & H.R. 1676 (aka PaCHETA) is a federal Bill that will increase major funds to a Medicare system. The funds will go towards schools of medicine and osteopathic medicine and many other businesses including non profit organizations that involve hospice and palliative care. The House voted and passed this Bill with a 'voice vote' on July 23, 2018. Only 7 days later, on July 30, the Office of Inspector General at the HHS, published a report called "Vulnerabilities in the Medicare Hospice Program Affect Quality Care and Program Integrity: An OIG Portfolio.
The portfolio is the result of a 10 year study which showed inappropriate billing, misinformation to patients and to families, misplacement of patients into unnecessary programs without the patients' nor families' knowledge, plus more. The OIG report recommends:

"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implement 15 specific actions that relate to 7 areas for improvement. CMS should strengthen the survey process—its primary tool to promote compliance—to better ensure that hospices provide beneficiaries with needed services and quality care. CMS should also seek statutory

authority to establish additional remedies for hospices with poor performance." 2018 OIG report

So what is the problem with this bill and how would it affect New York?

The first and major problem of this bill is that the medicare system is currently rift with fraud and abuse. This is not news to New Yorkers. 1* 2* 3*

When NYAgainstAS viewed the Congressional Bill, the OIG report together with the knowledge of activities going on in New York, (the push for assisted suicide/euthanasia under the guise of 'palliative care') doctors who are known for their support of assisted suicide/euthanasia bills are also heads of their founding 'Palliative care' programs " the sounding alarm went off.

While many abuses and fraud already occur under the medicare and medicaid system

in New York State as well as across the nation, with millions of tax payers dollars involved, not only through the act of fraud but then also through tax money in the court system to correct and bring to justice those who commit the violations, it befuddles NY Against AS as to why the House would want to throw more money into the malfunctioning system. The way NY Against AS sees it, the Palliative Care system flares dangerously on both ends: on one end, by fraud and abuse through bad, dishonest citizens, while on the other end, by unethical forces that push for Assisted Suicide/Euthansia.

New York Against Assisted Suicide urges everyone to send letters to the Senators in Congress listed below, warning them of the great danger involved with increased funding toward Palliative Care and Hospice, if the Bill is passed. Urge the Senators to instead correct the mal-functioning window of Medicare and Medicaid abuse now.

Tell Congressional Senators to Vote 'NO' on the Palliative and Hospice Care Education and Training Act, Senate Bill 693, aka the "PACHETA" Bill in the Senate.

Write to:

Committee on Health, Education, labor and Pensions:

Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions -
428 Senate Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC 20510

202-224-5375

Lamar Alexander (TN)

455 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington DC 20510

(202) 224-4944

Michael B. Enzi (WY)

379A Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC 20510

Richard Burr (NC)

217 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

(202) 224-3154

Johnny Isakson (GA)