physician assisted suicide

Quebec Euthanasia: Journalism Malpractice 2

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As I reported previously, Quebec will be debating the legalization of euthanasia — not assisted suicide — a bill that does not limit medicalized killing to dying patients. But don’t tell that to so-called journalists, who are busily about the task of badly misstating what the proposal would permit. I mentioned a Toronto Star example [...]

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Dutch MDs: OK to Put Baby Out of Parents’ Misery

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Despite infanticide still being murder under (the rarely enforced) Netherlander criminal code, the Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) has issued an ethics opinion holding that doctors may euthanize dying babies to end the parents’ suffering. From the story (Google translation): When parents [of a dying child] can not stand it anymore, physicians may hasten death, the [...]

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Government Funded Euthanasia Coming to Quebec?

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A bill to legalize euthanasia in Quebec has been filed, and it is a radical disaster. First, it would require that all “institutions,” e.g., hospitals, nursing homes, and residential care facilities “provide” terminal sedation (put into a coma and dehydrated to death) or euthanasia, which are included in the bill’s definition of the term, “end [...]

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Child Euthanasia Coming to Belgium

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Child euthanasia: It’s all over but the final voting in Belgium as the Parliament agrees across party lines that doctors should be able to euthanize children. From the Presseurop story: In the wake of several months of testimony from doctors and experts in medical ethics, a Belgian Senate committee will on June 12 examine the [...]

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Pushing Elder Suicide in Slate

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As we are in the midst of an elder-suicide crisis, we see elder suicide promoted within the assisted suicide movement and its camp followers in the media. Now, continuing the recent pattern, the 2002 joint elder suicides of Admiral Chester Nimitz, Jr. and his wife Joan has been extolled in Slate. Euthanasia activist, Dr. Lewis. [...]

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Alzheimer’s Death in Swiss Suicide Clinic

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The logic of assisted suicide pushes with the force of gravity to virtual death-on-demand. It starts with advocacy for allowing doctor-prescribed suicide for the imminently terminally ill for whom — supposedly — nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering. But that’s only a key that opens the door — and indeed, as we have [...]

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Dutch Docs Pushed to Euthanaize More Demented

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It is rare when the government has to push Netherlander doctors to be more aggressive with euthanasia. But that is what is happening around the killing of Alzheimer’s patients based on an advance directive. From the British Medical Journal story: Senior figures in Dutch medicine and politics are set to decide whether advanced euthanasia directives [...]

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Coming Swiss Suicide Right for the Healthy?

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Society’s acceptance of assisted suicide’s ideology eventually will lead, I predict, to a right to help being made dead for any adult with more than a transitory desire to die — and for any reason. After all, assisted suicide ideology couples radical personal autonomy and total body ownership with a view that killing is an [...]

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Declare “Assisted Suicide Free Zones” in Vermont!

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Vermont has legalized assisted suicide, and hospitals in the state are delaying implementation on premises. From the AP story: Vermont’s new aid-in-dying law, which allows doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it, is set to take effect as soon as Gov. Peter Shumlin signs it on Monday. But most Vermont [...]

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Suicide Contagion is Real

One suicide begets another, a study in Canada has demonstrated. From the Ottawa Citizen story: That suicide is contagious is a widely held — and controversial — theory. A groundbreaking new study co-authored by a University of Ottawa researchers has found that teens who know of a schoolmate who died of suicide are far more [...]

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