The bizarre and disturbing case of Michelle Carter, rumbling on for over two years, hit the headlines again recently as she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for her involvement in the suicide of her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy. The Carter case raises this question: is it legal to assist a suicide?
Continue Reading → Michelle Carter: The unacceptable face of assisted suicide
Once upon a time, you were supposed to try to talk someone out of suicide. Now, once you define suicide as, not a tragedy to be prevented, but a relief to be provided, then all of the careful limitations its advocates assured us would be placed around it were sure to fall away.
Considering the fact that Wettlaufer, the nurse who confessed to killing 8 people in Ontario, was not caught until she told a counselor what she had done, Canada’s self-reporting system raises a number of concerns.
That 'inheritance impatience' is noted as a significant factor in abuse of elderly Australians is a hardly surprising. The wealthiest generation that has ever lived and likely will every have lived - The Baby Boomers - are beginning to pass from this world; not quickly enough, it seems, for relatives and carers seeking access to inheritance.
Continue Reading → “Show me the money”. Market forces and the law of unintended consequences
