The very existence of assisted dying creates an expectation that we will surrender to our negativity.
Continue Reading → Soaring hopes as an antidote to assisted suicide
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Compassion for people at the end of life is a fundamental reflection of our humanity. We care. It’s what people do. But our compassion should never drive us to support killing by euthanasia or to help someone to their suicide. That intention is always wrong.
Continue Reading → The article on assisted suicide that Australian newspapers wouldn’t publish
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Apologists for euthanasia in the Netherlands often lie by omission. Rarely, for example, do they fully admit that the mentally ill are being killed. Nor do they discuss the conjoining of euthanasia with organ harvesting. Perhaps it a case of not seeing what they don’t want to see.
Continue Reading → Dutch Euthanasia Is ‘Killing’
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The Final Report of the Ministerial Advisory Panel on Assisted Dying set up by Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews late in 2016, recently handed down its final report and recommendations. After reading the report, it is hard to suggest that there can be such a thing as safe suicide.
Continue Reading → How many safeguards do you need to make assisted suicide safe?
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The British High Court will soon here the case of Noel Conway on whether he can receive a ‘medically assisted’ death. The key to that request is the word ‘medically’.
Continue Reading → We need to talk about how assisted dying affects doctors
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