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Pages tagged "Dignitas"


Switzerland, Assisted Suicide and Death Clinics.

Aug 26, 2014
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  By Alex SchadenbergInternational Chair - Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionA journal article on a pilot study concerning assisted suicide in Switzerland has resulted in significant media promotion of the legalization of assisted suicide. Assisted suicide causes the death of people and the issue deserves further investigating concerning its actual practice in Switzerland. Continue reading

Home Care boss calls for Dignitas suicide clinics in Britain.

Jul 13, 2013
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Dr Chai Patel, who overseas 230 nursing homes in Britain is calling for establishment of suicide clinics.  According to the  Continue reading

Swiss assisted suicide clinic kills an Italian man with a botched diagnosis.

Jul 13, 2013
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The Dignitas suicide clinic in Basel Switzerland caused the death of Pietro D'Amico, a 62-year-old magistrate from Calabria in southern Italy, in April, 2013 after D'Amico received a wrong diagnosis.  Assisting suicide and euthanasia must be prohibited because the decision of one person to end the life of another person is irrevocable. People who are not terminal or living with depression, cannot be treated for their condition once they are dead. Continue reading

Rational fears and an irrational response

May 31, 2013
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This article from the  UK Mirror is most evidently part of the campaign in support of Lord Falconer's assisted suicide bill in the UK House of Lords. It confirms what I discussed at the Continue reading

Psychiatrist in the UK needs to be investigated by the police

Mar 21, 2013
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  Psychiatrist who supplied report to man with dementia so he could kill himself at Dignitas needs to be investigated by the police. Continue reading

Death in Prime Time

Jun 12, 2011
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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. Continue reading

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