Pages tagged "Assisted Suicide"
Why legalising assisted suicide for anyone at all will inevitably lead to incremental extension
Jul 09, 2012
By Peter Saunders CareNotKilling UK
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Head of GPs in UK takes stand against assisted dying
Jun 04, 2012
Cross Posted from BIOEDGEby
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Hard Cases, Great Cases: bad law
Apr 13, 2012
Judge Robert Rolfe 1st Baron Cranworth in Winterbottom v Wright UK 1842. "This is one of those unfortunate cases...in which, it is, no doubt, a hardship upon the plaintiff to be without a remedy but by that consideration we ought not to be influenced. Hard cases, it has frequently been observed, are apt to introduce bad law." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jnr (Northern Securities Co. v. United States 1904)
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Stacking the Deck - The Tale of Two Reports
Feb 22, 2012
"Never suggest an inquiry unless you know the outcome beforehand." A commonly used phrase in politics and, most likely, the kind of advice Sir Humphrey Appleby might have given Jim Hacker MP in the British political comedy, !Yes Minister
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Not a Good Look - Queensland man jailed for assisted suicide
Feb 17, 2012
"Not a good look" said Phillip Nitschke to an ABC news journalist. He was referring to the fact that , the man convicted yesterday (Feb 16) in a Brisbane court of assisted suicide of Frank Ward in 2009 was the sole beneficiary of Ward's estate.Merin Nielsen
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The Dutch polish the slippery slope
Nov 11, 2011
Once it was common to hear pro-euthanasia commentators dismiss, out-of-hand, any possibility that euthanasia & assisted suicide law could not be contained. It's less common these days - most likely because The Dutch experiment continues to prove the hypothesis.The
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New Zealand court case fuels the debate
Nov 04, 2011
Sean Davidson, a New Zealand citizen who was working and living in South Africa, returned home to Dunedin to care for his sick and dying mother. Reports suggest that, at the time, she was deliberately starving herself to death.A court case in New Zealand has sparked debate about Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide.
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Death in Prime Time
Jun 12, 2011
While the management of risk is something that most of us deal with every day in some fashion, when that risk comes in the form of the loss of a life, it is simply not a risk society can afford to take. Award winning British author, Terry Pratchett's macabre fascination with death will soon bring the assisted suicide of hotelier, Peter Smedley in the Swiss Dignitas facility into living rooms across the UK on BBC 2.Pratchett, who was diagnosed in 2007 with early onset Alzheimer's disease, responded to that news by donating a million dollars US to Alzheimer research, pressing the British government to fund more research into dementia and attempting to develop a machine to assist Alzheimer's sufferers in daily life. A noble and fitting response. The recipient of an OBE and a Knighthood for services to literature, Pratchett is more likely to be remembered, however, for his own desire to die by assisted suicide and for documenting the suicide death of others for public consumption on the small screen. In this last and most bizarre endeavour he has found a willing accomplice in the form of the British Broadcast Corporation, the BBC.
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Assisted Suicide case New South Wales
May 05, 2011
Recent news in respect to court proceedings against Mr. David Scott Mathers for the assisted suicide of his partner, Eva Griffith in July 2009, deserve scrutiny; as do comments from Dr. Nitschke and from Michael Duffy in the .Sydney Morning Herald
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