When Marilyn Monroe died in August 1962, with the cause listed as probable suicide, the nation reacted. In the months afterward, there was extensive news coverage, widespread sorrow and a spate of suicides. According to one study, the suicide rate in the United States jumped by 12 percent compared with the same months in the previous year.
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Montreal, July 17, 2014 – As announced when Bill 52, An Act respecting end-of-life care, was adopted, the citizen movement Living with Dignity (LWD) and the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia (the Alliance), representing together over 650 physicians and 17,000 citizens, have today filed a lawsuit before the Superior Court of Quebec in the District of Montreal. The lawsuit requests that the Court declare invalid all the provisions of An Act respecting end-of-life care that ...
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Belgium adopted euthanasia for children a few months ago. Anneke Stoffelen tells us in Volksrant that pediatricians in the Netherlands now suggest legalizing euthanasia for children under the age of 12. This suggestion is particularly worrying because the decision for euthanasia would be made by doctors and parents, without needing the consent of the child. We are talking about legalizing involuntary euthanasia.
The Netherlands currently allows euthanasia of newborns (up to the age of one year old). And children over ...
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Andrée Champagne says she’s worried that “medical aid in dying” is now allowed in Quebec. After nearly 9 years in the Canadian Senate, Mrs. Champagne is retiring. You may remember her from her role in Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut which ran between 1956 and 1970. Mrs Champagne was also a Federal MP from 1986 to 1993.
In her final Senate speech, she said:
“Last week, the National Assembly of Quebec, my province, passed a new law on ...
According to a television program in the Netherlands, Altijd Wat Monitor, some pharmacists are refusing to dispense the products used to euthanise patients. This is annoying the physicians at an “end of life clinic” (whose only function is to conduct euthanasia).
Some pharmacists base their refusal on (religious) conviction, but many refuse simply because they disagree with the particular act of euthanasia, especially for people suffering from dementia, or for people who simply expressed they were “tired of living”.
Other pharmacists ...
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