The head of an anti-euthanasia group says one of the unsatisfactory results of the euthanasia movement is creating pressure for people to make that choice as if it's a good thing.
Continue reading How euthanasia turns culture upside-downEuthanasia and assisted suicide is sold to the public as a matter of choice; perhaps the ultimate act of autonomy. But what if there seems to be no choice at all?
Continue reading No Choice – abuse and coercion to deathExit boss and former medical doctor, Philip Nitschke recently awarded his 'Peaceful Pill Prize' to an elderly Australian couple because the woman cried an expletive at Professor Margaret Somerville on an Australian National current affairs program.
Continue reading Nitschke awards bad behaviour with encouragement to suicideAdvocates on both sides of the medically assisted dying debate say the Nova Scotia Health Authority should be more transparent about patients who apply to end their lives.
Continue reading Groups on both sides of assisted-death debate want more transparencyAssisted suicide activists say those with mental illness are being denied the right to die with dignity just as elderly ALS patients were before the Supreme Court struck down the ban on physician-assisted death in 2015. But this idea that suicide is dignified and painless is a dangerous one. Take it from someone who tried and failed.
Continue reading Commentary: Assisted suicide is an affront to mental illness, not a cure for it