A parliamentary inquiry into euthanasia has sounded a clear warning that changing the law on assisted suicide could be seen as normalising suicide, and an overwhelming 80% of submitters have rejected calls for euthanasia in this extensive and lengthy inquiry.
Continue reading Suicide Prevention Harmed by Euthanasia – Govt ReportOn November 4, 2014, sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, leapt in front of a commuter train. His death is one of many in a number of clusters that are becoming increasingly common.
Continue reading Dying of despairThe word “dignity” has been warped and misused to such an extent, and so effectively, that it has actually made euthanasia wildly popular. For years we have heard the term “death with dignity” and most now identify it with a pro-euthanasia view as opposed to natural death.
Continue reading Comment: Our definition of ‘dignity’ is caught in a death spiralVery recently, two senior physicians who have championed the legalization of euthanasia in their jurisdictions have rejected current “appalling” developments in euthanasia in their countries. Yet, these developments should have been anticipated. So, why weren’t they?
Continue reading The euthanasia slippery slope: a failure of memory and imaginationDismissals of opponents to assisted suicide and euthanasia as objecting for purely religious beliefs deliberately ignore valid arguments against it.
Continue reading I’m an atheist and against euthanasia