Very recently, two senior physicians who have championed the legalization of euthanasia in their jurisdictions have rejected current “appalling” developments in euthanasia in their countries. Yet, these developments should have been anticipated. So, why weren’t they?
Continue Reading → The euthanasia slippery slope: a failure of memory and imagination
Dismissals of opponents to assisted suicide and euthanasia as objecting for purely religious beliefs deliberately ignore valid arguments against it.
Continue Reading → I’m an atheist and against euthanasia
The very existence of assisted dying creates an expectation that we will surrender to our negativity.
Continue Reading → Soaring hopes as an antidote to assisted suicide
Compassion for people at the end of life is a fundamental reflection of our humanity. We care. It’s what people do. But our compassion should never drive us to support killing by euthanasia or to help someone to their suicide. That intention is always wrong.
Continue Reading → The article on assisted suicide that Australian newspapers wouldn’t publish
Apologists for euthanasia in the Netherlands often lie by omission. Rarely, for example, do they fully admit that the mentally ill are being killed. Nor do they discuss the conjoining of euthanasia with organ harvesting. Perhaps it a case of not seeing what they don’t want to see.
Continue Reading → Dutch Euthanasia Is ‘Killing’