{"id":1826741,"date":"2023-01-28T05:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T10:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826741"},"modified":"2023-01-28T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T10:07:15","slug":"alzheimers-association-hides-new-partnership-with-lobbying-group-for-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alzheimers-association-hides-new-partnership-with-lobbying-group-for-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer&#8217;s Association Hides New Partnership With Lobbying Group for Assisted Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falzheimers-association-hides-new-partnership-with-lobbying-group-for-assisted-suicide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826741&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Selling assisted suicide &#8220;historically marginalized communities&#8221; This is a challenging business as it kills potential clients and smacks strongly of eugenics. Compassion &#038; Choices is the largest and most active assisted suicide lobbying organization in the country. They have found a way to fix this. It has enlisted the help\u2014and data\u2014of a trusted brand: the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a strange fit. The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association invests significant resources to overcome the &#8220;disease&#8221; it calls. &#8220;the stigma&#8221; Kim Callinan (CEO of Compassion &#038; Choices), has spoken out against dementia and Alzheimer&#8217;s. &#8220;a fate worse than death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Compassion &#038; Choices was the name of the organization. <a href=\"https:\/\/compassionandchoices.org\/resource\/history-end-life-choice-movement#:~:text=Compassion%2520%2526%2520Choices%2520is%2520the%2520leading,at%2520the%2520end%2520of%2520life.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hemlock Society<\/a> until the group&#8217;s support for fellow member Jack Kevorkian\u2014and his increasing number of so-called mercy killings\u2014tainted the brand. The Hemlock Society was proud of Kevorkian&#8217;s actions. However, the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association issued an apology. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/11642940\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement<\/a> In opposition, note that &#8220;we must \u2026 affirm the right to dignity and life for every Alzheimer patient and cannot condone suicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George Soros, whose mother was a member the Hemlock Society, invested millions in the assisted suicide movement through his Open Society Foundations to help the Hemlock Society rebrand as Compassion &#038; Choices.<\/p>\n<p>Once at loggerheads Compassion &#038; Choices was announced last December by the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association that they would be focusing on a common goal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassionandchoices.org\/news\/alzheimer-s-association-and-compassion-choices-form-partnership-to-improve-end-of-life-care-for-those-living-with-dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shared effort<\/a> To improve &#8220;end-of-life care&#8221; for people with dementia &#8220;Black, Latino, Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI), and LGBTQ communities,&#8221; According to a Compassion &#038; Choices press release. Together, they will host webinars in the national and local areas, exchange data, and organize conferences. &#8220;and more,&#8221; According to the press release.<\/p>\n<p>Compassion &#038; Choices appears to be more enthusiastic about the partnership that its counterpart. The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association did not respond to multiple requests for interviews, but Compassion &#038; Choices issued two press releases. Each organization did not respond to multiple interviews requests. The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association, after a telephone conversation with a director of diversity equity and inclusion engagement, agreed to send comments in the days before publication. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Here are some key points raised by this report. The association hadn&#8217;t done so by Friday at 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Now critics are raising concerns about the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association&#8217;s new partnership\u2014which, contrary to its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/about\/transparency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy<\/a> To share &#8220;partnership information with all constituents,&#8221; It is not disclosed on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Compassion and Choices are not an option &#8220;end-of-life care&#8221; Despite its website describing the practice as &#8220;Assisted suicide lobbying&#8221;, it is not an organization.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassionandchoices.org\/about-us\/medical-aid-dying-not-assisted-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical aid for the dying<\/a>.&#8221; It spends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling assisted suicide to &#8220;historically marginalized communities&#8221; is a difficult business, because it tends to kill prospective clients and smacks of eugenics. Compassion &amp; Choices, the nation&#8217;s largest and most active assisted suicide lobbying group, has found a new way to remedy this. It has enlisted the help\u2014and data\u2014of a trusted brand: the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association.<br \/>\nThe post Alzheimer&#8217;s Association Hides New Partnership With Lobbying Group for Assisted Suicide appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1702,"featured_media":1826744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[11707,10678,8278,11783,4198,9342,6530],"class_list":["post-1826741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-alzheimers","tag-assisted","tag-association","tag-hides","tag-lobbying","tag-partnership","tag-suicide"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}