UK actress Claire King has announced she is seriously pondering euthanasia due to fears of being a “burden” when she can no longer care of herself. We can all empathize with those fears. But note: King’s desire to die has to do with existential anguish, not unbearable pain, which is euthanasia’s selling point.
Continue Reading → Euthanasia Abandons Despairing People to Their Worst Fears
A book review of Max Chochinov’s Dignity Therapy; a book explaining how palliative care workers can best maintain the dignity of their patients.
Continue Reading → If you have the ‘why’ of living, you can find the ‘how’
A list of reasons why people may want assisted suicide and answers to them.
Continue Reading → 5 Mistaken Reasons Why People Want Assisted Suicide
A study, published this month in the Journal of Pain and Symptom management, found almost three quarters of the patients surveyed (73%) had a spike in brain activity at the time of death.
Continue Reading → Dying patients study reveals ‘brain surge’ in final moments of life
An appeal from groups of Ontario physicians who object to the policy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario mandating that physicians unwilling to grant patients’ requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide must refer the patients to other physicians willing to do so. They seek a constitutional challenge to the CPSO policy saying that it is coercive.
Continue Reading → Coercion of Healthcare Practitioners in Canada: