Review priorities: it’s urgent!

During the month of November, as the world’s most extreme (or most transparent?) supporter of assistance in suicide promoted his horrible euthanasia machine with a detachable coffin, our Quebec politicians bickered about whether the Quebec government should ask the courts to clarify the concept of “reasonably foreseeable death” in the federal law on assisted suicide.

One again, always obsessed with one side of the story that only thinks of extending euthanasia to a greater number of suffering people, our ...

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Pressures to extend euthanasia: the opposition is still alive

A recent survey published by the University of Sherbrooke has sparked general indignation as the results showed that 91% of the family caregivers surveyed would agree to extending euthanasia to terminally ill people who are incapable of decision-making.

As mentioned in a Huffington Post article, this serious attack on the humanity of incapable people also shows that euthanasia is insinuating into our collective thinking the notion that death – not good health care, quality support and adequate ...

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Quebec moves slowly toward euthanasia for dementia

Euthanasia is insinuating into our collective thinking the notion that death – not good health care, quality support and adequate living conditions – is a solution to suffering for you and your loved ones.

In the depth of the current debates, a dramatic message hides behind the possibility of extending euthanasia to people who are no longer able to make their own decisions. Presumably, these people would no longer be fully considered as human beings.

Therefore, it seems urgent to ask ourselves, ...

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Wrong questions give wrong answers

As the last jolts of the summer end, there are many indications that this fall will be hot with respect to the issue of euthanasia in Quebec.

August ended with the official opening of the Superior Court lawsuit in which two people living with a disability are challenging the federal and provincial laws to eliminate the “end of life” and “reasonably foreseeable death” criteria.

At that first meeting, Living with Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance Against Euthanasia told ...

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