Tag: euthanasia

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. The Ontario Office of the Chief Coroner released the updated data for MAiD (Medical Aid in Dying–euthanasia and assisted suicide) deaths in Ontario. Since legalization (June 17, 2016) there have been 3,302 euthanasia deaths and 1 assisted suicide death, as of June 30, 2019. Broken down by …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition This is a difficult topic to write about knowing that this information may lead to depressed people obtaining suicide drugs online. Euthanasia activist, Philip Nitschke, has been selling suicide information, devices and drugs, online, for years. A recent article published by The Sun newspaper concerns school kids …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition [EPC] We mourn the death of Vincent Lambert, a cognitively disabled man who died by dehydration after France’s highest court ordered that he be denied food and fluid which they defined as medical treatment. Our online petition pleading that President Macron save his life received more …

Editor’s note. This article was published by HOPE Australia on July 9, 2019. One of Western Australia’s (WA) most senior palliative care nurses and a New Zealand based palliative medicine specialist have both come out in opposition to the looming euthanasia laws in their respective jurisdictions. After more than 30 years working in the public …

By Michael Cook With a “tsunami” of elderly patients with severe health problems approaching, Australians should not be legalising euthanasia, a senior doctor has told the Queensland Parliament. It could increase the pressure on vulnerable older people who feel they are a “burden” on others to do away with themselves, said Dr. Chrys Pulle, on …

“Euthanasia of a minor as young as 16 for psychiatric suffering is indeed legal in the Netherlands.” By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition While researching the issue of psychiatric euthanasia I came across an article by Psychiatrist Scott Kim published in the Atlantic on June 6, 2019. The article explains how psychiatric …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The British Medical Journal published a small study –“Pressure in dealing with requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide. Experiences of general practitioners” — concerning the pressure doctors experience in the Netherlands with requests for euthanasia/physician or assisted suicide. The study interviewed 22 General Practitioners and in-depth …

Euthanasia zealots believe that their mission is to deliver from suffering, not to obey the law By Michael Cook A common argument for the legalisation of assisted suicide is that it will stop people from helping spouses, relatives and friends to die illegally. It will make the whole right-to-die issue very transparent. But not everyone …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Vincent Lambert case which concerns the withdrawal of food and fluids of a cognitively disabled man, also opens the question of the goals of the euthanasia lobby. Sign the petition: Protect Vincent Lambert’s Life. Kevin Yuill, author of the book Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist …

By Alex Schadenberg, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Chris Ford, a socially left researcher and disability in New Zealand explains why he recently changed his mind on euthanasia. Ford, whose commentary was published on May 27 by Newsroom writes, The turning point for me came about a month ago. I saw the report of a meeting hosted …