I have discussed the contents of new law at length previously and I don't want to repeat myself. However, the bill did undergo some changes since I wrote about it, and there are certain sections of the new law that need to be emphasized, so here goes: The euphemism for homicide in the law is "aid in dying,"which in turn, is defined as part of "end of life care."Receiving "end of life care"�including euthanasia�is now a positive right. Continue reading

But what about people who can eat and drink by mouth? Assisted suicide advocates argue that it isn't fair that they can't die too. So, activists promote a form of "self-deliverance" that they call "voluntary stopping eating and drinking," (VSED), by which suicidal people declare their wish to starve to death. Bioethicist Paul T. Menzel and physician M. Colette Chandler-Cramer create a sophistic argument to justify their conclusion: People have the right to commit VSED; people also have the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment in an advance medical directive; hence, people have the right to order themselves starved to death (commit VSED via advance medical directive). Continue reading

The worldview of modern science . . . sees health not only as a foundation but also a principal goal, not only as a beginning but also an end. Relief and preservationâ��from disease and pain, from misery and necessityâ��become the defining ends of human action, and therefore of human societies.  Continue reading

Another expose of the pro-dying rhetoric from :Wesley Smith Continue reading

This essay by Wesley Smith appeared in the journal First Things.  His references to Assisted Suicide and the corruption on Palliative Care apply equally to euthanasia. Continue reading

This from Wesley Smith's blog : Human Exceptionalism Continue reading

Suicide has always been and always should be something of a taboo. Sometimes this rule is honoured in the breach so to speak. People like Welsh academic , who took her own life rather than living with progressive MS tried to affirm, in her last blog entry, that her death was not suicide. Commentator, has written often about the incongruity and downright double standards in the media in relation to suicide. Continue reading

This post from Wesley Smith's Blog:  Human Exceptionalism summarizes well the frustration we often feel with the way the media portrays euthanasia & assisted suicide. Continue reading

comments on a court judgment in New Mexico. The judgment in favour of assisted suicide was given in a lower court, so we hope and expect an appeal by the New Mexico attorney-general. Wesley SmithIf you ever wonder why there are so many radical and extreme lawsuits, wonder no more. As I have often said about a variety of issues, it only takes one judge to break down the walls of democratic governance and impose an ideological view. Continue reading

This is an excellent reflection by Wesley Smith from his blog .Human Exceptionalism Continue reading