By Alex SchadenbergInternational Chair - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition NB: Alex makes some very important and accurate distinctions when lookng at exactly what it the French may have done.Politicians in France have been debated the legalization of euthanasia for many years. Continue reading

This article was published on Wesley Smith's blog on June 16, 2015.By Wesley Smith Sigh. If the euthanasia pushers can't get people dead one way, they try another.The French Senate is debating legalizing terminal sedation for the terminally ill who want it. From the Yahoo story:France's debate over end-of-life care goes to the Senate, with a bill that would allow doctors to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes, but stops short of legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide. Euthanasia is currently legal in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, and recent polls show a large majority of French people favor legalization. But French lawmakers haven't been willing to go quite that far, in a debate that is arising at the same time as the wrenching family dispute surrounding Vincent Lambert, a Frenchman in a coma since a car accident seven years ago. Continue reading

Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick OBE, is the director of EPC International and lives near Avignon France. Article first appeared on Alex Schadenberg's blog. France is in danger of buying a deadly illusion: that terminal sedation is neither assisted suicide nor euthanasia. In the Netherlands it can be both, and the numbers of people being terminally sedated there are growing at an alarming rate. From the minute the Assemblée Nationale should pass any such legislation, terminal sedation will become the lie to hide the practice of euthanasia throughout France too.On Tuesday March 17, 2015 the French parliament overwhelmingly voted to give people the right to demand terminal sedation - that is, for them to be made unconscious in their last hours and days. We have been warning about the steep rise in the use of terminal sedation in the Netherlands, as a form of 'back-door' euthanasia. Continue reading

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, on June 24 ordered France to continue providing food and water to Vincent Lambert, a man who was injured in a motorbike accident in 2008. The decision by the European Court of Human Rights came hours after a French court ordered that food and water be discontinued for Lambert. Reuters News reported that:The court's request is set to delay by months or even years the outcome of a legal battle where Lambert's parents are resisting his wife Rachel's attempts to withdraw life support. The Strasbourg-based court said in a statement the case would be treated "according to the fastest procedure possible". A spokesman there acknowledged that even emergency procedures can take months or up to one or two years. Continue reading

From Alex Schadenberg's blog:  The following article was written by Redazione West and published on May 19, 2015  Continue reading

It has often been said the a French do it differently; though what exactly it is that they do differently seems left undefined.  That is until the news reports today that a  Continue reading

UK CareNotKilling director, , expands on the situation in France.Dr Peter Saunders Continue reading

Alex Schadenberg  comments on the recent announcement by President Francois Hollande that, in spite of clear opposition from the national ethics committee, he intends to push a euthanasia bill into the French Parliament later this year.  Continue reading

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