How bad is America’s suicide problem? Well, it’s so bad that Americans’ overall life expectancy has declined for the first time since the 1930s.
Continue reading America’s Suicide Crisis: Life Expectancy Declines for First Time Since 1930 Because So Many Commit SuicideIt’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.
Continue reading Why the Andrews legislation is all about suicide“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.”
Continue reading Is Euthanasia Corrupting Transplant Medical Ethics?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?
Continue reading Does death have a meaning?Dr Balfour Mount, considered “the father of palliative care in North America,” talks about why euthanasia places the most vulnerable among us at risk.
Continue reading Euthanasia: a well-intentioned but colossal and dangerous mistake