The Victorian Ministerial Advisory Panel charged by Premier Daniel Andrews with the task of developing a safe way to kill people and to help them to suicide, released its interim report.
Continue reading Truth: the first casualtyThe Supreme Court of Canada has ruled, Parliament has legislated and provinces have set up new systems. For most Canadians, the assisted suicide debate is last year’s news story. But Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Catholic Church’s theological watchdog-agency, begs to differ.
Continue reading ‘Tragic’ euthanasia law must be fought, Cardinal Müller tells Canadian audienceA Toronto doctor who once likened assisted dying to the Holocaust is no longer in charge of a federally mandated process to determine whether Canadians should be able to make advance requests for medical help to end their lives.
Continue reading Toronto doctor who compared assisted dying to Holocaust won’t chair advance request reviewAn open letter from Yves Robert, secretary of the Collège des médecins du Québec urging us to reflect carefully on what exactly has been just made legal in Quebec before rushing to expand accessibility.
Continue reading Dr. Robert’s regrets: Towards death à la carte?‘13 Reasons Why’ is a TV series appearing on Netflix based on the novel (of the same name) by Jay Asher. It relates the story of a fictional teenager, Hannah Baker, and her suicide. In all the hype over this series, some key messages may have been overlooked.
Continue reading Dr. Mitch Shulman: Some facts about suicide