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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.

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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 ...

Continue Reading → Belgium-Euthanasia: Is the conscience clause legitimate?

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

Podcast On Notre-Dame radio (FRANCE)

Mardis des Bernardins – Special newscast on suffering,...euthanasia, dignity, end of life.

Medical points of view, grieving mothers, jurists etc.

Here's the link towards the mp3 newscast

http://radionotredame.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/mardis-des-bernardins/mardis-des-bernardins-23-04-2013.mp3

Continue Reading → Euthanasia, end of life, dignity and facing suffering

Broadening the law relating to euthanasia. Can a perverse law be « perfectionned »?

Published by M. Jacques ZEEGERS(Columnist). 12/04/2013 at 12h27

The propositions aiming to broaden the law's field of application relating to euthanasia and presently before the Belgian parliament are justified, according to their authors, by a finding : The 2002 law contained « imperfections ». This justification already calls for a first comment. In order to perfection a law, it would already have to be a good law in ...

Continue Reading → The Belgian experience, 10 years after: Broadening the law relating to euthanasia. Can a perverse law be “perfectionned”?