Category: Assisted Suicide

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. The main criterion for reposting a story than ran in NRL News Today a year ago is its relevancy. The following meets those specifications in all respects. Unfortunately, the assault on these vulnerable people grows worse seemingly day by day. Excluding children, who are utterly powerless, no vulnerable group is …

By Right to Life UK A new cross-party parliamentary group has been formed to unite against a renewed call to make assisted suicide legal in the UK. The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well, publicly launched on Sunday, is being chaired by Conservative MP Danny Kruger but has members from across all the major political …

By Richard Egan  Here are the latest figures on assisting dying in the US state of Oregon. The 2020 data shows, among other concerns, that: *The numbers continue to rise steadily — 15% per year average; they are 0.61% of all deaths in Oregon (2% of all cancer deaths), up 20% from 2019 *From Jan …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Natasha Darcy is on trial for murder in the August 2, 2017 death of her boyfriend, Matthew Dunbar. Dunbar had made Darcy the sole beneficiary of his multi-million dollar estate. I have reported on this case before. Darcy claims, in her defense, that she didn’t murder Dunbar …

C-7 promotes ableism, the view that able-bodied people are superior—more worthy of life. By Hendrik van der Breggen  Editor’s note. This was written just prior to passage of C-7. It is now the law in Canada. Lebensunwertes Leben is German for “life unworthy of life.” As a justification of killing, this idea led to the Holocaust. Alarmingly, …

By Texas Right to Life New Zealand, like many other industrialized nations, legalized assisted suicide. As in other places that have made the killing of some patients legal, many doctors are refusing to participate.  Anti-Life politicians may be able to convince themselves that killing ill patients instead of treating them is “compassionate,” but the doctors who …

By Rosemary Frei This article was published on April 12, 2021 The cadence is increasing of jurisdictions introducing, normalizing and expanding laws allowing doctors to help people commit suicide.  Is this purely in the service of relieving unbearable physical or mental suffering? Or do other factors predominate?  I used to believe the former, but my recent re-examination …

By Dave Andrusko It was a close call, but the Washington state Senate adjourned this week without taking up HB 1141. Advertised by one highly sympathetic reporter  as ”making it easier for terminally ill, competent patients to use Washington state’s Death with Dignity Act,” in fact, HB1141 is riddled with dangerous provisions. Congratulations to the …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. I wrote this post a couple of years back. However with a powerful tide rolling in to “empower” the mentally ill (and therefore  unable to give genuine consent) by giving them the “right” to assisted suicide, I believe it is more relevant than ever. Although I do scan relevant articles, …

By Andrew Lawton Editor’s note. This article was published in the April 2021 edition of The Interim and reposted on the webpage of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Well, this one is personal for me. If Bill C-7 were the law of the land a decade ago, I’d probably be dead. Bill C-7 is product of …