Here's a link to an excellent article: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2013/10/euthanasia-putting-elderly-at-risk.html. Though written in opposition to the proposed euthanasia law in Quebec, the points it makes are just as valid for assisted suicide. The elderly and the very sick require a lot of care, sometimes trying caregivers to the point of exhaustion and … [Read more...] about Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Devalue and Threaten the Lives of the Elderly and Sick
A Good Article from Canada
Thanks to Massachusetts Second Thoughts for sharing this very good article: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/21/court_stays_off_euthanasias_slippery_slope_dimanno.html. Some will object to its conflation of euthanasia and assisted suicide. We think it is correct to do so; these two cannot be separated. Once doctors prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to someone, there … [Read more...] about A Good Article from Canada
Good News: There is No Trend Towards Legalizing Assisted Suicide
There was good news this week on the assisted suicide front, proving once more that states like Vermont and countries like the Netherlands are oddities, not the forerunners of a trend. In Canada, a British Columbia court of appeals overturned a lower court ruling that had held Canada's assisted suicide ban to be unconstitutional. In its decision, the court wrote, "The … [Read more...] about Good News: There is No Trend Towards Legalizing Assisted Suicide
Letter to Doctors, Actually Saying What We Knew All the Time: Assisted Suicide in Vermont Was and Is the Project of Forces From Outside the State
A Vermont doctor who fought hard against the legalization of assisted suicide gave us the letter linked here: pas website c and c letter to drs. He received it from an apparently new organization calling itself Compassion and Choices Vermont. Its website, linked in the letter, is not yet up and running. According to Wikipedia, "Compassion & Choices is the successor to … [Read more...] about Letter to Doctors, Actually Saying What We Knew All the Time: Assisted Suicide in Vermont Was and Is the Project of Forces From Outside the State
Not Dead Yet to Stephen Hawking: “Be Grateful You’re a Human. Most likely, if you were someone’s pet dog, they would have put you out of ‘your misery’ a long time ago, even if you didn’t feel particularly miserable.”
Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet has written a great article responding to Stephen Hawking's endorsement of assisted suicide on the grounds that "we don't let animals suffer." The part we like best? "The reality, Professor Hawking, is that you should be grateful you’re a human. Most likely, if you were someone’s pet dog, they would have “put you out of 'your misery' a long … [Read more...] about Not Dead Yet to Stephen Hawking: “Be Grateful You’re a Human. Most likely, if you were someone’s pet dog, they would have put you out of ‘your misery’ a long time ago, even if you didn’t feel particularly miserable.”