It’s difficult to talk about suicide. Not a person who reads this hasn’t been touched by one. Yet a recent editorial in The Age suggests that, by the numbers alone, public policy on dealing with what is clearly a national problem is not gaining any ground. In fact, the numbers seem to be getting worse.
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“In my very first anti-euthanasia column, published by Newsweek in 1993, I worried that once medicalized killing became accepted, it would soon be joined by “organ harvesting as a plum to society.” “Alarmist!” I was called. “Slippery slope arguer!” It will never happen, I was assured. Until it did. Now in both Netherlands and Belgium, mentally ill and disabled patients are voluntarily euthanized and their organs harvested after being killed.”
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Why are current approaches to dying problematic? Most people (in the developed West, that is) die in hospitals where patients are clean, well-fed and adequately cared for medically, aren’t they?
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Dr Balfour Mount, considered “the father of palliative care in North America,” talks about why euthanasia places the most vulnerable among us at risk.
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The British High Court recently heard a legal challenge from a terminally ill British man who wants the right to die. But before moving forward with assisted suicide legislation, legislators should look to the example of other countries.
Continue Reading → Legalising assisted suicide is dangerous – just look at Canada