In our haste to post the polls yesterday, we understated how bad the news from Canada really is. The Supreme Court of the province of British Columbia actually ruled that the countrywide assisted suicide ban enacted by the Canadian parliament, is unconstitutional. This provincial decision paves the way for more provinces to challenge the national law. The final decision will … [Read more...] about A Correction: The News from Canada Yesterday Was Worse Than We Thought:
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BAD NEWS! The British Columbia Supreme Court Has Struck Down the Province’s Assisted Suicide Ban: Please Vote in the Following 4 Polls
The head of the Canadian-based Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Alex Schadenberg, just sent the following information about 4 polls. Before posting this, we voted in one and found out that the opponents of assisted suicide are losing. Please vote as soon as you can, following Alex's direction. 1. CBC online poll: Should have the legal right to assisted suicide? Link: … [Read more...] about BAD NEWS! The British Columbia Supreme Court Has Struck Down the Province’s Assisted Suicide Ban: Please Vote in the Following 4 Polls
Legal Assisted Suicide: the Perfect Alibi
Lest we ever be tempted to believe that the Vermont Senate’s defeat of the bill that would have legalized assisted suicide has put the issue to rest, on June 10 the Rutland Herald published a pro-assisted-suicide commentary by a David Carkeet of Middlesex, “How to Debate How We Die” … [Read more...] about Legal Assisted Suicide: the Perfect Alibi
National Review: Elevating doctor-prescribed suicide to “treatment” puts patients at risk
Remember the cancer-stricken Lockerbie bomber who was sent home to Libya in 2009 because his Scottish doctors said he had only three months to live? He just died, almost three years later. The National Review article linked below uses his case and the case of a Massachusetts disability rights activist who was diagnosed with “terminal” ALS 50 years ago, as examples of the … [Read more...] about National Review: Elevating doctor-prescribed suicide to “treatment” puts patients at risk
Undertreatment Is As Big a Problem As Overtreatment: Deaths Result Because Doctors and Caregivers Think the Lives of Patients with Disabilities or Dementia Are Not Worth Living
It would be insanity to insert legal assisted suicide into a culture in which the lives are people with disabilities, especially those of the elderly suffering from dementia, are widely considered not worth living. Check out the following two articles. http://nymag.com/news/features/parent-health-care-2012-5/index6.html In this article the son of a mother who is old and … [Read more...] about Undertreatment Is As Big a Problem As Overtreatment: Deaths Result Because Doctors and Caregivers Think the Lives of Patients with Disabilities or Dementia Are Not Worth Living