Category Archives: Euthanasia
Sarkozy draws line in sand over euthanasia
By Michael Cook Editor’s note. This appears at www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9938. By way of background, Mr. Cook has written previously, “The left-wing candidate in the French presidential election [François Hollande] has strongly endorsed the legalisation of euthanasia if he is elected.” The
“Don’t mention the War”
Death on Wheels – euthanasia ‘home delivered’ in the Netherlands
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Paul Russell, the leader of HOPE in Australia, wrote this blog titled Death on Wheels (http://noeuthanasia.org.au/blog/blog/death-on-wheels-euthanasia-home-delivered-in-the-netherlands.html). He makes some interesting comments about the plan by the Netherlands euthanasia lobby (NVVE). I thought
Dutch Mobile Euthanasia Clinics Ready to Roll
Canadian Television Station produces exposé on the Rasouli case
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Television station CTV W5 has produced an exposé on the Rasouli case and other cases where the doctors have unilaterally and without consent decided to withdraw treatment from a patient. (See www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120203/w5-life-or-death-investigation-120204.)
Dutch celebrate a decade of euthanasia with a film festival
By Michael Cook The world’s first euthanasia film festival is being held in Amsterdam, sponsored by the Dutch Right to Die lobby (NVVE). This week, from February 6 to 12 is a “Week of Euthanasia” in the Netherlands, a celebration
4 people die of dehydration/malnutrition everyday in UK hospitals
By Alex Schadenberg Editor’s note. Mr. Schadenberg is executive editor of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. This entry appeared on his blog at http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2012/01/4-people-die-of-dehydrationmalnutrition.html. An article by Sophie Borland and published on January 22 in the Daily Mail online reports that
Tony Nicklinson – there are limits to choice in a free society
By Dr. Peter Saunders As reported in the Guardian, Telegraph and Huffington Post, Tony Nicklinson, a 57 year old man paralysed from the neck down after suffering a stroke that left him with locked-in syndrome, today began a high court
Major victory for life in Europe: ‘Euthanasia must always be prohibited’
BY JOHN-HENRY WESTEN STRASBOURG, January 26, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com)–Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a non-binding resolution stating: “Euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for
Margo Macdonald dishes up the same confused euthanasia proposals again
By Dr. Peter Saunders Margo Macdonald Tuesday announced that she is going to try again to legalise assisted suicide and/or euthanasia (it’s not clear which) in Scotland, just over a year after her last spectacular failure. Ms MacDonald, Scotland’s only


