Why are current approaches to dying problematic? Most people (in the developed West, that is) die in hospitals where patients are clean, well-fed and adequately cared for medically, aren’t they?
Continue Reading → Does death have a meaning?
The British High Court recently heard a legal challenge from a terminally ill British man who wants the right to die. But before moving forward with assisted suicide legislation, legislators should look to the example of other countries.
Continue Reading → Legalising assisted suicide is dangerous – just look at Canada
A parliamentary inquiry into euthanasia has sounded a clear warning that changing the law on assisted suicide could be seen as normalising suicide, and an overwhelming 80% of submitters have rejected calls for euthanasia in this extensive and lengthy inquiry.
Continue Reading → Suicide Prevention Harmed by Euthanasia – Govt Report
On November 4, 2014, sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, leapt in front of a commuter train. His death is one of many in a number of clusters that are becoming increasingly common.
Continue Reading → Dying of despair
The word “dignity” has been warped and misused to such an extent, and so effectively, that it has actually made euthanasia wildly popular. For years we have heard the term “death with dignity” and most now identify it with a pro-euthanasia view as opposed to natural death.
Continue Reading → Comment: Our definition of ‘dignity’ is caught in a death spiral