Tina Turner considered assisted suicide, but her husband helped her to die a natural death

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Editor’s note. Alex Schadenberg and Wesley J. Smith are teaming up to address the American and Canadian experience with euthanasia and assisted suicide at the 2023 National Right to Life Convention. For more information, go to https://nrlconvention.com/product-category/2023-registration. Tina Turner died a natural death on Wednesday May 24, but in her …

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Human rights committee warned of dangers of introducing assisted suicide by legal experts

By Right to Life U.K Parliament’s influential Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) met Wednesday afternoon to consider the question of ‘assisted dying’ from a human rights perspective.  The Select Committee, which comprises members of both the House of Commons and House of Lords, heard oral evidence from four ‘expert’ panelists: Paul Bowen KC and James Strachan KC, barristers …

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‘A moral stain’: Ethicists, doctors argue against expanding assisted suicide in Canada

By Bridget Sielicki  The downward spiral of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), its legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia laws, appears to be showing no signs of slowing down as recent headlines indicate a growing acceptance of MAiD as a solution for poverty. While advocates initially argued that MAiD laws would be tightly guarded and only available to terminally …

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“Plan 75” film shows ‘a disturbingly realistic glimpse’ of assisted suicide

By The Christian Institute It is “not fiction” to suggest that many vulnerable people would be pressured to end their lives if the UK legalised assisted suicide, a senior columnist has said. Writing in The Times, columnist and former editor of The Sunday Telegraph Dominic Lawson said that the film Plan 75 “confronts its audience with a disturbingly …

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Ontario man charged with two counts of aiding and abetting suicide

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition CTV News Videojournalist, Jon Woodward, reported on May 9 that Kenneth Law, 57, faces two counts of aiding and abetting the deaths of two people in Peel Region. It allegedly was through the online sales of a legal substance that is lethal in high concentrations. Law sold the substance online …

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Ontario man arrested for selling suicide substance

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An Ontario man, Kenneth Law, has been arrested and charged with two counts of assisting a suicide and is known to have assisted the suicide of at least 7 people in the US and the UK. Lucas Casaletto reported for City News that: An article by George Odling for …

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Assisted suicide lobby works to undermine disability rights opposition to assisted suicide

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A May 2022 powerpoint presentation by the Statewide Campaigns Director with Dying With Dignity outlines a strategy for assisted suicide campaigners for  how to undermine opposition to assisted suicide by disability rights organizations.  The assisted suicide lobby recognizes that disability rights groups have been a central factor in …

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It would be difficult to exaggerate the devastating impact of Physician-assisted suicide on the medical profession

By Dave Andrusko In his brilliant National Review Online columns, which we repost regularly, Wesley J. Smith helps the reader appreciate that, like a cancer, the growth of support for so-called physician-assisted must be fought 24/7. Led by the likes of Compassion and Choices (the new name for the Hemlock Society), they are relentless. Opponents must be …

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Doctor-Assisted Suicide for Anorexia?

The value of every human life is inherent, not determined by what we can do or how we feel. By John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander  Recently, Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, a Colorado doctor of internal medicine, published a paper in which she advocates that physician-assisted suicide should be extended to patients struggling with anorexia. “Anyone who wishes to keep …

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Court case launched to declare assisted suicide unlawful and unconstitutional in the US.

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition This is my first analysis of the court case that was launched on April 25, 2023, to have the California assisted suicide law declared unlawful and unconstitutional. Future articles will further explain the case. Euthanasia Prevention Coalition–USA supports this initiative. The United Spinal Association, Not Dead Yet, Institute …

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NYT Op-Ed Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Mentally Ill

By Wesley J. Smith The phony argument that legalized assisted suicide will permanently be limited to the terminally ill took a big hit by a New York Times op-ed in which an oft-suicidal Canadian philosophy professor, Clancy Martin, argues that mentally ill people who are suicidal should receive help from doctors to die. Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why …

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Don’t forget about Luxembourg, a world leader in assisted dying

By Richard Egan Euthanasia and assisted suicide been legal in Luxembourg since 2009. The person requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide must have a serious, incurable and irreversible affliction which leads to unbearable physical or mental suffering. The seventh biennial report by the National Commission for Control and Evaluation covering 2021-2022 was published in March 2023. There were 24 …

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