Category: Assisted Suicide

By Wesley J. Smith Assisted-suicide activists always promise that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. It’s a big con. The guidelines are not really strict. They rely primarily on self-reporting. And they are meant to be temporary: As soon as political conditions permit, the access to doctor-prescribed death expands. Witness Oregon. When Measure 16 passed, assisted …

By Wesley J. Smith Alzheimer’s disease runs in my family. My mother and uncle both died from it, so I have intimately witnessed the worst that the disease can inflict. I also know how much people with the condition need love, understanding, and patience. They are still the persons they have always been, just compromised and …

America’s death lobby wants to follow Canada’s disastrous assisted death law By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A Seattle Times Opinion article published on January 13, 2023 advocates for the removal of the terminal illness requirement before dying by assisted suicide. In the article, Peter Haley writes about a woman in Washington State who died …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I was cleaning up my emails and found a report that was published in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services on November 29, 2022 titled: Death with Dignity: When the Medical Aid in Dying cocktail gets into the Wrong Hands. The report concerns an emergency whereby a …

Before making comments on the latest media promotion of Nitschke and Sarco, let it be known that Nitschke is in the business of suicide. He sells suicide kits, suicide substances, suicide instruction books, suicide gadgets and he provides online suicide advice. He is a suicide zealot. Read the whole story.

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Council of State, the highest administrative court in France, on December 29, 2022, rejected a challenge to France’s assisted suicide law from Switzerland’s Dignitas assisted suicide group. “Dignitas and 50 of its French member launched an initiative to change the law in 2021,”  CNE news reported. “France’s judge rejected …

By Right to Life UK The Canadian Government is being urged to delay plans to introduce assisted suicide for the mentally ill and children from next year. Canada has some of the weakest protections for the elderly and vulnerable against pressure to end one’s life by assisted suicide and euthanasia. There is no requirement that …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Philip Nitschke, also known as Dr. Death, is being promoted again for his Sarco suicide machine.  Before making comments on the latest media promotion of Nitschke and Sarco, let it be known that Nitschke is in the business of suicide. He sells suicide kits, suicide substances, suicide …

“The mere legalization of MAID creates a serious and discriminatory danger…” By Gordon Friesen Editor’s note. This article was published by the Psychiatric Times on December 19, 2022 and was in response to the series, “MAID and the Disabled” by Douglas W. Heinrichs, MD. It is with the greatest pleasure I learn that Douglas W. Heinrichs, …

By Wesley J. Smith Whether legalising EAS [Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide] encourages suicide or helps prevent suicide is an empirical question. We need to look at the evidence. There have been several studies published on this topic in peer review journals in recent years. These studies have found that, after EAS is introduced: No study has found a …

By Leslie Wolfgang In 2021, assisted suicide through Canada’s Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) regime killed more people than chronic liver disease/cirrhosis (4,173) and Alzheimer’s disease (5,743) in 2020 combined. In all, a shocking 10,064 people died by assisted suicide in 2021 in Canada. If it weren’t for the recommendation that the underlying disease be listed on the death certificate, MAiD would …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A Dutch court rejected a challenge to the Netherlands euthanasia law by the group – Coöperatie Laatste Wil [Cooperative Last Will]. The group launched the court case in October that challenged the Dutch euthanasia law because it restricts killing to doctors. The group wants “to widen euthanasia …