A religious order in Belgium, the Brothers of Charity, announced that from now on, it will allow euthanasia to take place in their psychiatric hospitals. Read more >>
Continue reading BELGIUM: Belgian Catholic psychiatric hospitals ‘adjust’ their view of euthanasia:The defeat of Tasmania's third attempt to introduce voluntary euthanasia laws has been met with anger and disappointment, with MPs labelled cowardly. Read more >>
Continue reading AUSTRALIA: Tasmania votes down voluntary euthanasia bill for third time in 10 years:Euthanasia advocate Dr. Philip Nitschke is selling ‘do-it-yourself’ euthanasia kits disguised as equipment for home-brewing beer. Read more >>
Continue reading AUSTRALIA: Euthanasia campaigner is selling £250 ‘home brew’ suicide kits online:The economic gravitational force for assisted suicide is obvious. It costs a few thousand dollars for an assisted suicide, but perhaps hundreds of thousands to provide patients treatment and interventions so they don’t want it. Thus, it is no surprise that some stories go underreported.
Continue reading Offered Assisted Suicide in Place of TreatmentA Canadian study recently examined the reasons behind euthanasia cases in four major hospitals in the Toronto area.
The results of the study demonstrate that the main factor behind euthanasia deaths relates to existential distress. Indeed, the primary reason given by patients concerned the loss of autonomy – and not the unbearable pain that was conveniently sold to us from the beginning. Other reasons included fear of becoming a burden to those around them, fear of losing ...
Continue reading Behind Euthanasia: Existential Distress