Elder abuse is a growing concern in Canada, with data showing that reported cases have almost doubled in the past 10 years.
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The economic gravitational force for assisted suicide is obvious. It costs a few thousand dollars for an assisted suicide, but perhaps hundreds of thousands to provide patients treatment and interventions so they don’t want it. Thus, it is no surprise that some stories go underreported.
Continue Reading → Offered Assisted Suicide in Place of Treatment
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The Tasmanian Parliament recently debated the latest assisted suicide and euthanasia bill to come before an Australian Parliament. The final vote saw the ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2016', defeated by a vote of two to one.
Continue Reading → Euthanasia bill crushed in Tasmania
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As the Andrews government prepares to introduce laws giving terminally ill people the right to a physician-assisted death in Victoria, attention has turned to the vexed question of who should qualify – and whether people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease ought to be included.
Continue Reading → Assisted dying laws: Call for dementia sufferers to be included
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A year since assisted suicide became legal, only a small number of physicians are willing to perform the procedure, and their numbers are shrinking. Taking a life is harder than they thought.
Continue Reading → How to End a Life
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