‘13 Reasons Why’ is a TV series appearing on Netflix based on the novel (of the same name) by Jay Asher. It relates the story of a fictional teenager, Hannah Baker, and her suicide. In all the hype over this series, some key messages may have been overlooked.
Continue Reading → Dr. Mitch Shulman: Some facts about suicide
Canadian death doctors and nurse practitioners who euthanize the sick, disabled, and mentally ill–soon perhaps, also those with Alzheimer’s–are actively embracing the very lethal act Hippocratic doctors forswore for the protection of vulnerable patients.
Continue Reading → Canadian Medical Killers Form Trade Association
With the passage of Bill C-14 last year, medically assisted death, or assisted suicide, has become a reality for physically ill patients with intolerable suffering and for whom death is “reasonably foreseeable.”
Continue Reading → Opinion: Treatment, not assisted death, for mentally ill people
If someone is at the end of his life and his last dying wish is to have assistance with suicide rather than continue “waiting” for life to naturally end, shouldn’t we give it to him? There are, however, a number of issues that emerge in response to this very question.
Continue Reading → Assisted Suicide in Select Cases? by Stephanie Gray
Deacon Larry Worthen, executive director of the Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada (CMDS), worries that the care co-ordination service soon to start in Ontario will be too focused on the assisted suicide option, which allows patients to self-refer for assisted suicide or allow their families and friends to refer if they can’t find a doctor willing to refer for an assessment.
Continue Reading → Focus on life, not suicide, Christian Medical and Dental Society warns