Journalists should guard against coverage that could lead to 'suicide contagion'.
Continue Reading → Media should stop romanticizing assisted suicide
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Francois Paulette says that Canada's new euthanasia law is not part of indigenous culture.
Continue Reading → Indigenous Canadians fear impending euthanasia law
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The government has introduced legislation in response to the court’s ruling, and what is the chief complaint? That it does not include children and the mentally incompetent. What once was unthinkable is now indispensable.
Continue Reading → Exceptions to assisted suicide eventually will fall away, as they must
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To understand the position of conscientiously objecting doctors, consider the following questions.
Continue Reading → Six questions about physician-assisted death, from a conscientious objector
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Only 15 to 30 percent of dying Canadians have access to or receive hospice palliative care or end-of life services, dedicated to addressing all forms of suffering — physical, psychological and existential — affecting patients nearing death and their families. And yet, all healthcare facilities may be required to offer physician-hastened death, i.e., euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Continue Reading → Speaking for those who can’t
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