A Toronto doctor who once likened assisted dying to the Holocaust is no longer in charge of a federally mandated process to determine whether Canadians should be able to make advance requests for medical help to end their lives.
An open letter from Yves Robert, secretary of the Collège des médecins du Québec urging us to reflect carefully on what exactly has been just made legal in Quebec before rushing to expand accessibility.
Continue Reading → Dr. Robert’s regrets: Towards death à la carte?
‘13 Reasons Why’ is a TV series appearing on Netflix based on the novel (of the same name) by Jay Asher. It relates the story of a fictional teenager, Hannah Baker, and her suicide. In all the hype over this series, some key messages may have been overlooked.
Continue Reading → Dr. Mitch Shulman: Some facts about suicide
Canadian death doctors and nurse practitioners who euthanize the sick, disabled, and mentally ill–soon perhaps, also those with Alzheimer’s–are actively embracing the very lethal act Hippocratic doctors forswore for the protection of vulnerable patients.
Continue Reading → Canadian Medical Killers Form Trade Association
With the passage of Bill C-14 last year, medically assisted death, or assisted suicide, has become a reality for physically ill patients with intolerable suffering and for whom death is “reasonably foreseeable.”
Continue Reading → Opinion: Treatment, not assisted death, for mentally ill people