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MONTREAL, May 5th 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - The publicity campaign Killing is not healthcare is currently in full swing in the Quebec mainstream media. The Living with Dignity and Collective of Doctors for the Medical Refusal of Euthanasia organisations have joined efforts in order to heighten public awareness to the inherent risks of the legalisation of doctor provoked-death. The Quebec government is actually planning to legalise « medical aid in dying », which in reality is nothing other than euthanasia ...

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The Physicians' Alliance against euthanasia presents:

Protecting the most vulnerable from euthanasia

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Special guest: Balfour Mount, physician

Euthanasia: well- intentioned but a colossal and dangerous mistake

Date: Saturday May 11th, 8h30 to 12h45

Where: Mount-Royal Center (Peel metro station)

2200 Mansfield, Montreal

Saturday May 11th, 8h30 to 12h45

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Really listening is meeting another in the relationship. Let us multiply these initiatives in Quebec. When the relationship takes precedence over institutional rules and that we bet on the strengths of the individual instead of the loss of autonomy. To love and be loved.

An inspiring film!

Carpe Diem, until the end of life

Seizing the reality of people with Alzheimers, to meet them… that is the philosophy of Carpe Diem house, a unique place in Quebec where relationships with others take priority. ...

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The conscience clause that certain health institutes put forward in order to not apply the law on euthanasia in Belgium will be subject to a non-biding opinion of the bioethics consulting comity, in which "one part tends to prove" that there exists "no legal basis" permitting to affirm that it might be "legitimate", indicated one of its members Tuesday, however recognizing that there was no unanimity regarding the subject.

The law on euthanasia permits the doctor to put forward the conscience ...

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To avoid what she considers a painful administrative procedure, Elke Sleurs proposes to double the validity of the declarations.

Senator N-VA Elke Sleurs proposed Friday that the anticipated euthanasia declarations remain valid for a period of ten years compared to the actual five years. Since 2008, the law allows to make these declarations before the commune.

According to numbers compiled by Health minister Laurette Onkelinx, cited by Mrs Sleurs, some 40,000 people, 62% of them women, have already filled out such a ...

Continue Reading → The deviations of the anticipated declaration of euthanasia in Belgium