Tag Archives: Assisted Suicide
Leading cancer centre in Washington state sets up assisted suicide program
By Michael Cook The leading cancer centre in Washington state has published in the New England Journal of Medicine a blueprint of how to implement a dying-with-dignity program, now that assisted suicide has been legalised. The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Push for Paralyzed Assisted Suicide in UK
By Wesley J. Smith Assisted suicide is not about terminal illness. It is about creating a legal right to be made dead. In the USA, this agenda is more hidden than elsewhere, but anyone with eyes to see can discern
Paul Lamb’s tragic personal circumstances must not blind us to the deadly consequences of his attempt to undermine the murder law
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members A 57 year-old man, who was almost
Environics Research group poll: Canadian attitudes toward euthanasia and assisted suicide
“This recent Environics Research group poll found that support for euthanasia and assisted suicide is not increasing in Canada and it found that Canadians remain divided on the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide.” By Alex Schadenberg, executive editor Euthanasia
Suicide Shouldn’t Be Easy to Accomplish
By Wesley J. Smith Switzerland is Jack Kevorkian as a country. Just as suicidal people used to fly to Michigan to be made dead by him, they now fly to Switzerland to be made dead at Swiss suicide clinics. Some
Swiss Suicide case is only part of the assisted suicide debate.
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The media is promoting the sad story of Susan Griffiths, a Winnipeg Manitoba woman who decided to die at the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland. Griffiths has Multiple System Atrophy, a condition
Why Not Assisted Suicide for the Grieving?
By Wesley J. Smith British novelist Julian Barnes says he contemplated suicide over his wife’s death–and still does. From the Telegraph story [www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9948990/Julian-Barnes-I-contemplated-suicide-after-the-death-of-my-wife.html]: “’The question of suicide arrives early, and quite logically,’ he writes. ‘I knew soon enough my preferred
Council of Canadians with Disabilities: Legalizing assisted suicide creates a double standard
Editor’s note. The following letter was dated this past Monday and was sent to members of the Canadian Parliament. The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) is referring to the June 15, 2012 decision in which Justice Lynn Smith declared
Switzerland is Kevorkian as a Country
By Wesley J. Smith Jack Kevorkian’s first death was of Janet Adkins, who had early stage Alzheimer’s, but was so fit she beat her son at tennis a few days before she died. (He actually murdered her by lethal injection,
Brief update of UK news about euthanasia and assisted suicide
Editor’s note. This was posted on the blog of Dr. Peter Saunders. It is taken from “Care Not Killing’s” latest news roundup of news at the end of life from its January/February 2013 newsletter Legislation Lord Falconer has announced that