Claims that euthanasia availability is about empowering people to freely make choices must be confronted with the reality that demarcation lines determining who is able to receive the service are state-sanctioned declarations about whose life has worth. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Whose life is worth living? Assisted suicide draws a line
While Canada's criminal code has been updated to include assisted dying and criteria for obtaining it, there are still many ambiguities in terms of its implementation and who qualifies to obtain it. One ambiguity is whether assisted dying should be extended to prison inmates. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Capital punishment on demand
The suspect in Japan’s worst mass murder in postwar history told police he was trying to “save” people with multiple disabilities and had “no remorse” for what he did. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Care home massacre probed as mercy killing
The murder of 19 intellectually disabled people in Japan is just another example of the kind of prejudice the disabled community faces. Less violent but still prejudiced attitudes towards the disabled community are still present and they raise questions about the treatment of the disabled; particularly when euthanasia is concerned. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Isn’t killing 19 disabled people a hate crime?
Blog post published by Aubert Martin in the Huffington Post after recent cases of people who starve to be euthanized according to the criteria of the law. This wave of advocacy for suicide leads supporters of euthanasia to validate reasons for wanting to die. At the same time, people with severe disabilities are cunningly deprived of indisputable status of “human being” for the sole reason that they cannot “do it all by themselves” Read the article >>
Continue Reading → Compassion redefined