Tag: Derek Humphry

Founder of American assisted suicide lobby urges legalization of euthanasia

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Derek Humphry, the “father” of the modern assisted suicide lobby in America and co-founder of the Hemlock Society, now Compassion & Choices, is urging the assisted suicide lobby to extend the criteria for assisted suicide laws and to legalize euthanasia [lethal injection] in America. In an …

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Suicide Cult Pushes Home Made Suicide Kits

  By Wesley J. Smith Suicide advocacy never stops. Even as the world mourns a celebrity self-destruction, Derek Humphry’s group ERGO (Euthanasia Research Guidance Organization) continues the death proselytizing–this time pushing a booklet, How to Make Your Own Helium Hood Kit. Humphry lives in Oregon, by the way. Legalization of assisted suicide does not stop …

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Assisted Suicide Word Engineering Propaganda

  By Wesley J. Smith Was it Eldridge Cleaver who said that he who controls the definitions, wins the debate? I seem to recall reading that in Soul on Ice. Cleaver or no, the assisted suicide advocacy group Hemlock Society Compassion and Choices has spent years blurring definitions and redefining terms–with the active compliance of …

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Of Course Euthanasia is About Mental Illness

By Wesley J. Smith It really is astounding how the media continue to assume that assisted suicide/euthanasia is only for the terminally ill. Here’s the latest example: Hemlock Society founder Derek Humphry was in Arizona advocating for assisted suicide for the mentally ill, and Arizona Star columnist Tim Steller is shocked! From the article: “If …

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Wildcat Suicide School in Europe

By Wesley J. Smith Euthanasia activists are mounting a two-front pro-suicide offensive. First are the legalizers, those who seek to open the door to doctors (or others) legally assisting suicide/administering euthanasia for some–the terminally ill, seriously disabled, chronically ill, and/or mentally ill. They often pretend that suicide isn’t suicide, by calling it “aid in dying.” …

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