It must never become accepted wisdom that old age is going to be a miserable experience. We must fight tooth and nail to change the system, to improve life for older people, and to convince people to enter their later years in good heart. Read more >>
Continue Reading → No, human beings do not have shelf life
Fear of the prospect of old age and disability provide the most powerful motivations behind the campaign to change the law on assisted suicide.Read more >>
Continue Reading → The narcissism of assisted suicide
An interview with Dr. Will Johnston, a member of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and the chair of the organization’s B.C. chapter, on his concerns regarding the legislation recently passed through the House of Commons. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Will Johnston: The case against physician-assisted dying
Two memes dominate the pro-euthanasia rhetoric; choice and pain. Yet in a significant number of media stories featuring people who want access to euthanasia and assisted suicide we see that it is not pain that is the dominant driving factor; it is fear of the possibility of future pain and, most often the fear of loss of autonomy. While autonomy or choice is a more potent argument, it is not without its problems. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Tyranny disguised as autonomy in euthanasia cases
A personal commentary on the view that “death with dignity” is virtually synonymous with physician-assisted suicide (or physician-assisted death). Read more >>
Continue Reading → Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Rise of the Consumer Movement