An Oregon Doctor's insight into Assisted Suicide
In Oregon, the mere presence of legal assisted-suicide steers patients to suicide even when there is not an issue of coverage.
View ArticleAltruistic assisted suicide - surely you can't be serious?
A Huffington Post report from the US about a terminally ill Michigan woman who wants to die by assisted suicide so she can donate her organs is most disturbing.
View ArticleAccess to assisted suicide - a human right?
Observing the reality that euthanasia laws actually create a 'right to be killed' and assisted suicide laws, a 'right to have someone help you kill yourself', then any so-called safeguards are, not...
View ArticleA “Death Doula” Loses His Medical License
The Maryland Board of Physicians has revoked the medical license of a Baltimore anesthesiologist, Dr. Lawrence Egbert, for allegedly assisting in the suicides of six people in the state from 2004 to...
View ArticleA social policy of assisted suicide is just as dangerous as the death penalty
Disability Activist John Kelly provides testimony to the Californian Legislature in opposition to assisted suicide.
View ArticleA Doctor-Assisted Disaster for Medicine
As a physician in Oregon, I have seen the dire effect of assisted-suicide laws on patients and my profession.
View Article10 reasons why at least some (many) disabled people (and their supporters)...
This is a follow up post to the article yesterday about people living with disability, the prejudice they face and why this all points to euthanasia & assisted suicide being a dangerous, bad idea.
View Article'Death with Dignity' claims another victim
Now Vermont has joined the misguided movement toward assisted suicide.
View Article"The Real Debate we should be having" Wesley Smith
Another expose of the pro-dying rhetoric from Wesley Smith:
View Article"My fears over assisted suicide laws" top UK judge speaks out:
Baroness Butler-Sloss who headed the UK family court system speaks out against euthanasia and assisted suicide on the eve of the Appeal hearing int he UK Supreme Court in the Nicklinson/Lamb case. The...
View Article'Cowboy’ doctor may be riding into his own sunset
But there will be others; there will always be others. Just another reason why the only solution is to keep the clear, bright line precisely where it is and reason enough to prosecute the outliers.
View Article‘The world would be a different place with euthanasia’
UK Disability Activist tells her story and speaks out against the UK DPP's apparent softening on assisted suicide in the wake of the Martin decision.
View Article'Losers and Losers' in Victorian Committee recommendations
That there will most likely always be people who are excluded makes an ass out of any law that supposes itself to be based on compassion for people who are suffering.
View Article'Death with Dignity' Bill defeated in SA Parliament
The final vote was taken at 4:02 am. The house divided 23 votes to 23. The bill was defeated on the casting vote of the Speaker.
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