In all the world, assisted dying, whether euthanasia or assisted suicide, is legal in only five countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and, very sadly, the US, where it is legal in Oregon and Washington. BBC World News recently presented a documentary in two parts in which Liz Carr, a person with disabilities opposed to assisted death in either form, … [Read more...] about A BBC Documentary in Two Episodes: Everyone Should Listen, Especially Our Legislators
Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia
Belgium is Considering Allowing Children to “Choose” Euthanasia
In Belgium, where euthanasia has been legal since 2002, the Parliament is now discussing whether children as young as twelve should be able to choose to have their lives ended this way: http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/10419 It’s more than a little frightening to know that the slippery slope to the current situation in Belgium began long before … [Read more...] about Belgium is Considering Allowing Children to “Choose” Euthanasia
Bioethicist: Let’s Find a Way to Kill Alzheimer’s Patients!
Bioethicist Wesley Smith posted the article in italics below on the website of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (http://www.cbc-network.org/2013/01/bioethicist-lets-find-a-way-to-kill-alzheimers-patients/). It is a critique of an article in the Hastings Center Report that advocates euthanasia for people with Alzheimer's. We know that a woman with … [Read more...] about Bioethicist: Let’s Find a Way to Kill Alzheimer’s Patients!
More on Blindness and Deafness as Reasons Not to Live
Steven Drake of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet has written two great articles reacting to the news of 45 year old deaf twins who were “voluntarily” euthananized in Belgium because they were going blind. The men were not terminally ill, yet they met the Belgian legal criteria for euthanasia because of the "grave and incurable suffering" they experienced from knowing … [Read more...] about More on Blindness and Deafness as Reasons Not to Live
At Least Some Assisted Suicide Proponents in Vermont Really Want Euthanasia
On January 30, 2012, the Times Argus published a heartbreaking letter from the mother of a severely disabled man who lived 29 years before dying when she refused treatement for him. The letter advocates the enactment of the assisted suicide bill now stuck (hopefully for the rest of the session) in the Vermont Senate by stating: "After watching him suffer endlessly for so many … [Read more...] about At Least Some Assisted Suicide Proponents in Vermont Really Want Euthanasia