Pages tagged "Assisted Suicide"
Your Right to Die Will Become Your Duty to Die
Sep 07, 2017
Couching their agenda in euphemisms such as ‘dignity’ and ‘compassion’, the ‘Right to Die’ movement aggressively pushes both physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. They maintain the stance that assisted suicide is a fundamental right, while refusing to legalise it is an inhibition of free will.
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Why are assisted suicide bills continuously failing in the US?
Sep 06, 2017
One could easily be forgiven for thinking that the whole world is experiencing a massive culture shift towards legislating for assisted suicide; that the zeitgeist has captured this issue like it has with climate change, for example.
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Assisted suicide and euthanasia: Where is the divide?
Sep 05, 2017
Some of the discourse on assisted suicide and euthanasia can make the question seem complicated. In essence the proposition is quite simple: should our society allow doctors to support a person’s wish to suicide or not?
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Dutch euthanasia group confirms Elder Abuse risk – but doesn’t seem to care.
Sep 02, 2017
The Dutch legalised both euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2002. The data shows an overwhelming preference for euthanasia. In 2015, there were 6672 euthanasia deaths and 150 assisted suicide deaths; the total comprising at least 4.5% of all deaths.
In recent years the discussion about ‘life ending actions’ has turned to assisted suicide for ‘completed life’; where a person over a certain age may declare that they wish to end their lives even though they may have no presenting, serious medical issues.
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Paul Russell on Daniel Andrews’ Assisted Suicide Legislation
Aug 29, 2017
Is euthanasia really the answer to suffering or terminal illness? Or is it merely a slippery slope to killing vulnerable individuals?
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What are doctors really saying about assisted suicide & euthanasia?
Aug 28, 2017
Who are we going to trust?
In the modern era, the role of the doctor has moved away from a paternalistic one and more towards an informed consent model where the patient gets to discuss their preferences for treatment rather than simply being told what the doctor has decided to do.
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Meet Jeanette Hall – a cautionary tale
Aug 25, 2017
Jeanette Hall is a resident of Oregon. In 1997 she voted for their assisted suicide law.
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The Polls – what do they really tell us?
Aug 24, 2017
The findings from two separate polls on ‘assisted dying’ were released last weekend by Victoria’s two main newspapers.
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Everyone loses under legal euthanasia and assisted suicide
Aug 23, 2017
We have nothing positive to gain by legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide, but we have so much to lose.
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International Alert – UN Swallows the Kool-Aid
Aug 22, 2017
In 2015, the UN Human Rights Committee began a process looking to arrive at what is known as a ‘General Comment’ on Article 6 of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
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