Don’t worry—if you’re not eligible for euthanasia, Soros has some sex workers for you. /s

Dying for the Cause: Foundation funding for the “right-to-die” movement

The assisted suicide/euthanasia movement typifies this phenomenon. Often referred to euphemistically as the “right-to-die” or “death with dignity” movement, it seeks nothing less than legalization of mercy killing via a two-step process: the acceptance of assisted suicide and, later, a shift to active euthanasia.

Assisted suicide refers to a death in which the person who dies takes the final death-causing action after receiving assistance. For example, a doctor may intentionally prescribe a lethal dose of drugs and a family member may mix it into pudding, but the patient performs the death-inducing act of swallowing. In euthanasia, someone other than the victim performs the final death-causing action, as when a doctor administers a lethal injection.

In 1995, the newsletter of a group called Choice in Dying listed seven organizations in a “Guide to Right-to-Die Organizations.” At least four of them (Compassion in Dying, Death with Dignity Education Center, the Oregon Death with Dignity Legal Defense and Education Center, and Choice in Dying itself) have attracted funding from large foundations.

One such foundation is George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI). The OSI, through its Project on Death in America, gives millions of dollars for enhancing end-of-life care and none of the Project’s money is used for assisted suicide purposes. But the OSI provides grants for assisted suicide advocacy through OSI’s President’s Fund in its U.S. Programs office.

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Funding for the Center has included grants from OSI ($100,000 in 1997), the Gerbode Foundation ($544,900 since 1996), the Columbia Foundation ($200,000 since 1998), and the Walter and Elise Haas Foundation ($57,500 during 1996-97). Other past support for the center has come from Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust ($50,000 in 2000), the Atkinson Foundation, the Women’s Foundation, and Varian Associates (an electronics firm).

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Greenwall’s grantees include a group called Choice in Dying (in 2000, Choice began “evolving into a new organization,” called Partnership for Caring). Stubing takes issue with even referring to Choice in Dying as a right-to-die group, even though Choice is in fact the first and best-funded of all such groups. In recent years, Choice has received grants from a myriad of foundations, including the Nathan Cummings, Robert Wood Johnson, and the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels foundations.

Transforming the Culture of Dying: The Project on Death in America 1994-2003