‘Non-Existence Is Better Than This’: A Canadian man who struggles with dissociative depersonalization disorder, mood disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, and who says he suffers debilitating pain, is seeking the right to die and is expressing his objection that a newly-passed assisted suicide law does not allow those with mental illness to end their life.
Continue reading Canadian Man With Mental Illness Wants Right to DieAccording to one of Canada’s pre-eminent bioethicists, the onset of state-sanctioned euthanasia represents a “seismic shift” in values that the world will someday regret.
Continue reading World will regret euthanasia spread, bioethicist saysA TEDx talk by Glennon Doyle on her experience with mental illness. Watch video >>
Continue reading Lessons from the Mental Hospital:Legalizing assisted suicide has become a racially-charged issue in Washington D.C. Although laws legalizing assisted suicide have been enacted in a handful of states with a mostly white population, it faces particular opposition in the nation’s capital, home to a large African American community. Read more >>
Continue reading Right-to-die law faces skepticism in nation’s capital:The Swiss media are reporting that, according to the federal statistical office, the number of assisted suicide deaths increased by 26% in 2014. Read more >>
Continue reading 26% increase in assisted suicide deaths: