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Living With Dignity Newsletter
Vol. 21
A Word from the Director
As the last month of the summer has come to an end, there are many indications that ...
Thomas Swales, 19, had begun to walk with a stoop after contracting Friedreich’s ataxia. However, as his conditioned worsened Thomas - known as Tommy - began getting depressed and his family believe he looked into the possibility of taking his own life at the Swiss assisted suicide clinic Dignitas.
Professor of Palliative Medicine Ilora Baroness Finlay of Llandaff from the United Kingdom and Robert Preston, the director of the Living and Dying Well Think Tank in the UK visited New Zealand recently. Both are opposed to legalised assisted dying, based strictly on the evidence.
Continue Reading → Experts rebut pro-euthanasia arguments
“I began my work against assisted suicide in 1993. In the intervening years, I have witnessed a very disturbing change. When I began, the emotional zeitgeist of society focused intensely on preventing suicide. Today, in many cases, the emotional oomph (if you will) supports suicide.”
Continue Reading → “Dying of Despair”
The idea of starving a helpless elderly person to death used to be thought of as the most egregious crime. An abhorrence. Now, for some, it is merely another form of “death with dignity.”
Continue Reading → Should We Starve Alzheimer’s Patients?