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Dear friends of Living with Dignity,It is a great pleasure that I'm announcing the nomination of Mr. Nicolas Steenhout as director general of the Living with Dignity network (LWD).

Mr. Steenhout is originally from Montreal. He has extensive experience in Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand in advocacy and media relations for the needs of people with disabilities. He directed Centers for Independent Living in two U.S. states. He comes to VDD from Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, where he ...

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By Marc Beauchamp

M. Beauchamp is a doctor and spokesperson for the Collective of Doctors for the Medical Refusal of Euthanasia. M. Racicot is a retired lawyer and spokesperson for the citizen network Living with Dignity.

The Marois government's Bill 52 on «end-of-life care», which deals with the «right to die with dignity», includes a chapter seeking to decriminalize and to legalize forms of active euthanasia.

To confuse the population, euthanasia is being presented under the neologism «medical aid in dying». It is ...

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While in Quebec, it's the day of filing of a bill relating to questions on end-of-life which would allow for euthanasia disguised as medical aid in dying- and some people will certainly rejoice at the coming of prematurely-provoqued death under certain circumstances within its health system...

Elsewhere in Japan, the dean of humanity is no more...since yesterday. He died following complications from pneumonia at the age of 116 years. M. Kimura was the oldest person on the planet amoung all men ...

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The Physicians' Alliance Against Euthanasia and the citizen network Living with Dignity will comment on the new bill filed by minister Véronique Hivon. Press Release (french).

http://www.newswire.ca/fr/invitation-aux-medias-

Tomorrow, Wednesday June 12th, the bill relating to questions of end-of-life and euthanasia (under the euphemism medical aid in dying) will be filed at the National Assembly.

11h15- 12h15 Press conference with Mme Véronique Hivon, Social Services and Youth Protection minister- Bill concerning end-of-life/ National Assembly room 1.30, Pamphile-LeMay Building.

To hear the conference at 11:15, ...

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Belgium- The reunited commissions of Social Affairs and Senate Justice finished yesterday with organized auditions in light of an eventual extension of the law partially decriminalizing euthanasia, the last specialists to speak concentrated on certain refusals to practise euthanasia experienced the current context, notably in cases concerning psychic pathologists.

The two commission presidents, Elke Sleurs (N-VA) et Alain Courtois (MR), will meet tomorrow, Thursday to agree on a time frame for the remainder of the work. The political debates could ...

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