Ilora Finlay Assisted suicide is illegal in the United Kingdom. Parliament has rejected six attempts to make it legal, the last in January 2010, when the vote was 85-16. Despite six failures, the proponents of legalization do not give up and have renewed their efforts through the media, especially through the recent televising by the BBC of a suicide at the Swiss assisted … [Read more...] about ‘Safeguards’ will not make assisted suicide acceptable
Making assisted suicide more accessible?! Crippen’s Blog on Disability Arts Online
Disability Arts Online is a UK website that describes itself as "a web journal that gives disabled and deaf artists, performers, film-makers, writers, and critics a place to talk about developing artistic practice and accessing the arts." The site describes the author of the article in italics below as "probably now the best Disabled cartoonist in the world..." We are also … [Read more...] about Making assisted suicide more accessible?! Crippen’s Blog on Disability Arts Online
Doing Away with a False Assumption: No One Has to Choose Between Uncontrolled Pain and a Shortened Life
Articles on assisted suicide, and especially in the comments to online articles, often assert that giving people enough medication to provide effective pain relief in terminal illness is the same, or almost the same, as prescribing medication for the purpose of committing suicide, because doses of painkillers high enough to control the pain of dying hasten death. The … [Read more...] about Doing Away with a False Assumption: No One Has to Choose Between Uncontrolled Pain and a Shortened Life
Could the Proponents of Assisted Suicide Stop the Doublespeak? And Some Definitions
1.Suicide (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suicide) “ the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally especially by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind”. 2.Doublespeak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak) “language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words”. 3.Die … [Read more...] about Could the Proponents of Assisted Suicide Stop the Doublespeak? And Some Definitions
Let’s Keep On Topic, Please!
Using the Huffington Post , NPR, and their own websites, the proponents of expanding the legalization of assisted suicide beyond Oregon and Washington, the only two states where it is now legal, are falling back on a tactic they have used before, obscuring the real dangers of legal assisted suicide with talk of who is and is not for it. True Dignity wants to make its own … [Read more...] about Let’s Keep On Topic, Please!