Tag: euthanasia

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Avis Favaro, the Medical correspondent with CTV News, produced an excellent news story concerning the death of Alan Nichols, a 61-year-old man who was physically healthy but lived with chronic depression. This story clearly shows how the recent Québec court decision that struck down the terminal illness …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Canada is debating expanding euthanasia to people who are not terminally ill, such as people with dementia. Recently a Québec court struck down the part of the criminal code that required that a person’s “death be reasonably forseeable.” The terminal illness restriction, in the law, prevented doctors …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A campaign by Jocelyn Downie, the academic euthanasia activist at Dalhousie University, has resulted in St Martha’s hospital in Antigonish NS being forced to provide MAiD (euthanasia) in the Catholic hospital. An article by Ross Lord and Alexander Quon for Global News reported that the Nova Scotia …

By Wesley J. Smith I could have told you this would happen. A Dutch doctor who lethally injected a dementia patient, has been cleared of criminal charges. Euthanizing dementia patients isn’t against the law in Netherlands if the patient expressed a desire to die before losing competency. What made this particular case notable was that …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia advocates are raising money to establish a euthanasia clinic in Saskatoon, a place that Jae Blakley, an assisted death advocate, has named Cider House. Amanda Short, writing for the Saskatoon Star Phoenix on September 7, 2019, reported: Similar to hospice care, The Cider House would provide …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition My suspicions have been confirmed by the latest promotion campaign by the Dutch euthanasia clinic who are proudly reporting that requests for euthanasia, at the clinic, have increased by 15%. The euthanasia clinic claims that doctors across the Netherlands are referring patients to the clinic rather than …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Yesterday I responded to an Associated Press propaganda article celebrating an assisted suicide party in Seattle. One of our supporters sent me the link to a Canadian propaganda story about assisted suicide, a story that I did not write about when it was first published. Similar …

By Wesley J. Smith A Canadian man disabled by ALS didn’t want to die now. He wanted to be cared for at home so he could be with his son. Nope. The government’s socialized health-care system refused to pay for all the care he needed. But it sure paid to kill him by euthanasia. From …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition In January 2018, an Orthodox Jewish Care Home filed a complaint against euthanasia doctor, Ellen Wiebe for sneaking into the Home and killing a resident, which is against the policy of the Louis Brier Home in Vancouver. Kelly Grant, the Globe and Mail health reporter, in …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. I would like to comment on the language of the Western Australia (WA) euthanasia bill. The WA government has indicated it will fast track the euthanasia bill through parliament, yet, no one outside of the government has seen the bill. It appears that the WA Labor …