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Pages tagged "depression"


Euthanasia doctor justifies death for depressed people.

Mar 22, 2015
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By Alex SchadenbergInternational Chair - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An interview with Wim Distelmans, the chairman for the Federal Euthanasia ommission in Belgium, was published in HLN.BE (google translated) on March 15. where Distelmans explains that there were 50 - 60 psychiatric patients who died by euthanasia in 2013 - 2014.Distelmans states: Continue reading

Nitschke - The fallout and the problem with the few

Oct 02, 2014
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Article by Craig Wallace, convenor of Lives Worth Living Australia. In The Age (Melbourne) back in August Ian Maddocks, Emeritus Professor of Palliative Care at Flinders University and Senior Australian of the Year 2013, wrote a reflective piece arising out of the decision of the Medical Board of Australia to use emergency powers to immediately suspend the then Dr Phillip Nitschke, after he admitted to supporting 45-year-old Perth man Nigel Brayley in his decision to commit suicide despite knowing he was not terminally ill.Professor Maddocks intelligent piece crystallises a dilemma faced by euthanasia advocates in the wake of the Nitschke deregistration as they attempt to craft a new argument for medically assisted dying based on process, nuance and evidence, not just the wielding of emotion or the idea of suicide as the exercise of a personal right. There are lessons here too for the anti-euthanasia lobby which has sometimes equally allowed itself to be painted into a corner with black and white arguments founded in dogma. Continue reading

Euthanasia: What could possibly go wrong?

Feb 21, 2014
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The following article was written by Margaret Wente and published in  on February 20, 2014.The Globe and Mail Continue reading

The Dutch Debate Doctor-Assisted Suicide For Depression

Feb 04, 2014
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, writing for the online news service,  , explores the incremental extension of euthanasia in The Netherlands from "unbearable and hopeless suffering" to euthanasia for depression.Nadette De Visser Continue reading

Editor of Scottish Newspaper rejects assisted suicide bill

Feb 04, 2014
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This report from CareNotKilling Director, in the UKPeter Saunders Continue reading

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