There is an online poll on assisted suicide on the Denver Post website. http://www.denverpost.com/politics. The poll is on the left of the page towards the bottom.
Please vote "No".
Note: Polls on news website are liable to change. Don't worry if the poll you see is no longer the poll discussed here.
Continue reading Denver Post online poll on assisted suicideLegalising euthanasia is never a good idea, but it's a particularly bad idea in these difficult economic times, explains Baroness Campbell of Surbiton. Member of the UK government and living with a disability, she's in a good position to know what she's talking about.
The debate on euthanasia is all the rage in many countries. In Quebec there is a respite until just after the elections, but it risks coming back to the table. In Canada, the Canadian Medical Association has begun consulting its members, as well as the public. The elected representatives of New Hampshire have just voted against a bill which would have legalised assisted ...
Continue reading Difficult economy + legalisation of euthanasia = a dangerous ideaMontreal, March 5, 2014 – The call for elections by the Marois government has killed Bill 52, An Act respecting end-of-life care, on the order paper. The citizen network Living With Dignity and the Physicians' Alliance against Euthanasia are very pleased with this development and the fact that the Bill – a danger to our most vulnerable citizens – has not been adopted.
Now that the question of euthanasia has been introduced into the public debate, it is crucial not to ...
Continue reading To our future MNAs: We want high quality palliative care, not euthanasiaAn excellent article, "Loving life!" was published in Le Journal de Montréal over the weekend. The author, Nathalie Elgrably-Levy, says that "the legalization of euthanasia must be looked at in the context of our healthcare system", and adds that over 70% of Canadians don't have access to palliative care. She warns of the financial risk – the financial imperative will become more important than the individual.
We have been saying for a while now that we must offer adequate palliative ...
Continue reading Money before people, economy before lifeNathan Friedland, a nurse at the Montreal Children's Hospital says that Bill 52 causes him, and many like him, sleepless nights. In an article for The Gazette ("Courageous teen's death has something to teach us"), he relates the story of a teenager's last few weeks.
Friedland describes moments in time, snapshots of a dying cancer patient's life, and that of his family. What strikes me most about this is how the boy was accompanied, with love, to the end.
Friedland ...
Continue reading There is something to learn from accompanying people to the end