Pages tagged "Euthanasia"
Suicide should be prevented – not promoted
Sep 11, 2017
When a person commits suicide after being bullied, the media laments how someone’s vulnerability was exploited by others, who pushed the victim to end their life prematurely. So why is the media promoting suicide for other groups?
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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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Elder Abuse – a real and present danger
Aug 31, 2017
By Paul Russell: Anyone who has a grasp at all of the significant problem of Elder Abuse in our community and across the Western World right now and who hasn’t made the connection to euthanasia and assisted suicide simply hasn’t been paying attention.
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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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No consensus among doctors on assisted suicide
Aug 26, 2017
When it comes to assisted suicide and euthanasia legislation, there is clear disagreement amongst doctors.
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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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