Category: Assisted Suicide

By Michael Cook In a first for Switzerland, an inmate of a prison has ended his life with the help of an assisted suicide organisation, Exit. The male prisoner had been detained in Bostadel, near Zurich. He died on February 28. Exit declined to release the man’s name due to privacy considerations. Authorities in Zurich …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Lisa Rathke reported on March 14 for the Associated Press that Vermont’s attorney general’s office reached an agreement with Lynda Bluestein, a Connecticut woman who is seeking death by assisted suicide, and Dr. Diana Barnard, who is willing to prescribe the lethal assisted suicide drugs to Bluestein, by dropping …

Euthanasia is being described as a ‘medically effective’ care option By Scott Kim This article first appeared in The Globe and Mail and was republished in Euthanasia Prevention Coalition with permission. Now that the Canadian government has introduced a bill to delay implementing psychiatric MAID – assisted dying for people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness …

Listen to this episode of the Humanize Podcast where host Wesley Smith of the Discovery Institute interviews the Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. These two experts will also be keynote speakers at the 2023 National Right to Life Convention this summer. Learn more about them: nrlconvention.com/speakers Register here: nrlconvention.com/register

By Nancy Flanders Sharon Johnston, age 60, was paralyzed from a fall down the stairs a few years ago, and decided she would rather die than live with a disability. Through the assisted suicide campaign My Death, My Decision, Sharon was connected with 70-year-old Sue Lawford, who agreed to escort her to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland …

By Wesley J. Smith The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is holding an overnight walk in Washington, D.C., on June 3 to fight suicide. From the “Why We Walk” promotion for “Out of the Darkness“: As you walk over 16 miles from dusk till dawn, you’ll find support and understanding in a community of others affected …

By Paul Stark, MCCL Director of Communications ST. PAUL — Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) strongly opposes legislation just introduced that would legalize assisted suicide in Minnesota. The bill would authorize doctors to prescribe lethal drugs for certain patients to intentionally end their own lives. “This legislation has gone nowhere in past years, and …

By Wesley J. Smith When assisted-suicide mongers promise strict guidelines to protect against abuse, rest assured, it’s nothing but a con. It won’t take long before these same advocates denigrate the very “protections” they promoted as “barriers” or “obstacles” to a good death. Assisted-suicide-movement camp followers in the media eagerly promote the new message without a mention that …

By Joseph Vazquez The New York Times showcased an apparent disregard for human life when it chose to legitimize the idea of mass suicide as one “drastic” method to deal with Japan’s aging population. The Times pushed the extremism of Yale University Assistant Professor of Economics Yusuke Narita, who apparently doesn’t mince words. “‘I feel like the only solution is …

By Wesley J. Smith The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is holding an overnight walk in Washington, D.C., on June 3 to fight suicide. From the “Why We Walk” promotion for “Out of the Darkness“: As you walk from dusk till dawn, you’ll find support and understanding in a community of others affected by suicide. Together, …

By Michael Cook For the second time Portugal’s Constitutional Court has rejected a right-to-die law because its wording is “intolerably vague”. The bill has been returned to Parliament to be redrafted. On January 30 the Court concluded, by a vote of 7 to 6, that the text was inconsistent with the Basic Law because it failed to …

I also know how vulnerable people with dementia are and how easily they can be manipulated. I am also aware that too many denigrate them as less than human — so-called non-persons — and view their lives as no longer worth living. Read the whole story.