We recently posted an article entitled “ Euthanasia of People with Dementia in the Netherlands”. Marcie Landell correctly points out on our Facebook wall that euthanasia is a “step beyond assisted suicide”. We believe it is an inevitable step. While it is important to distinguish between assisted suicide, in which a person takes his or her own life, and euthanasia, or … [Read more...] about Euthanasia: An Inevitable Step beyond Assisted Suicide
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Vermont’s Assisted Suicide Bill Allows for the Same Kind of Abuse Identified in this Article about Washington’s Assisted Suicide Report
The article in parentheses below was published in the July 2011 bulletin of the bar association of Kings County, Washington's largest county (https://www.kcba.org/newsevents/barbulletin/BView.aspx?Month=07&Year=2011&AID=article10.htm). The concerns about abuse it details are as relevant for Vermont as for Washington, because the Vermont bill is similar to the statutes … [Read more...] about Vermont’s Assisted Suicide Bill Allows for the Same Kind of Abuse Identified in this Article about Washington’s Assisted Suicide Report
A Test to Predict Alzheimer’s Could Drastically Increase Assisted Suicides
Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston, scholars from the Hastings Center, have written a thought-provoking commentary published in Time.com. The article speaks about researchers currently developing a test to predict whether a person will develop Alzheimer’s disease. The test will be used to predict the disease before it sets in, and long before the person shows any signs of the … [Read more...] about A Test to Predict Alzheimer’s Could Drastically Increase Assisted Suicides
Legalizing Assisted Suicide is a Mistake: Another Physician Writes to the Vancouver Sun
I am a cancer doctor in Oregon. The combination of assisted-suicide legalization and prioritized medical care based on prognosis has created a danger for my patients on the Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid). The Plan limits medical care and treatment for patients with a likelihood of a five per cent or less five-year survival. My patients in that category, who say, have … [Read more...] about Legalizing Assisted Suicide is a Mistake: Another Physician Writes to the Vancouver Sun
Euthanasia of People with Dementia in the Netherlands
This article in italics below appeared today on the excellent blog of our friend Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2011/07/euthanasia-of-people-with-dementia-in.html). The Daily Mail paper in the UK reported on June 29, the for the first time euthanasia of people with dementia has been … [Read more...] about Euthanasia of People with Dementia in the Netherlands