Vulnerable people need to be protected from being induced to seek assisted death as “shame relief,” a former Ontario Human Rights Commission chief commissioner told a conference on assisted dying in Ottawa on Saturday.
Continue reading Beware of assisted dying as ‘shame relief,’ former human rights commissioner saysA bill proposed in Washington D.C., modeled after Oregon’s assisted suicide law, would allow terminally ill patients with less than six months to live to obtain a life-ending drug to be ingested at home. It has faced some resistance.
Continue reading Veteran with Terminal Brain Cancer Explains Why He’s Against Assisted SuicideOn October 5th, the health committee of Washington DC’s state council will vote on a Dignity in Dying Act brought forward by one of its Democratic members. Like many proposed doctor-assisted-dying laws debated across America in the past year, it is modelled on that of Oregon.
Continue reading More states are considering laws granting the terminally ill the right to dieDoctor-assisted suicide is legal, but Christian institutions have a long history of receiving public funding and yet refusing to discuss this practice.
Continue reading Catholic hospitals can’t avoid talking about physician-assisted suicide anymoreJewish General Hospital (JGH) physician Michael Bouhadana left little doubt on where he stands on medical aid in dying (MAD). The acronym is apt, because requiring doctors to end the lives of patients who request it is “madness,” he believes.
Continue reading Medical aid in dying is ‘madness,’ JGH doctor says