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 DistressThe Tasmanian Parliament recently debated the latest assisted suicide and euthanasia bill to come before an Australian Parliament. The final vote saw the ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2016', defeated by a vote of two to one.
Continue reading Euthanasia bill crushed in Tasmania