After the shocking news that Elizabeth Wettlaufer, an Ontario nurse, was responsible for 8 deaths in care homes, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is calling for an investigation into every care home in Canada.
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Bill C-14, which sets out the legal framework for decriminalized euthanasia, satisfies no one. Some feel it is too restrictive. Others of us continue to have serious concerns about its implications. We will all be vulnerable at some time in our lives and this legislation does not and cannot protect us.
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While the provinces squabble over whether the federal government should attach strings to health dollars, other countries have optimized a whole range of tools to help middle-aged people bear the financial and emotional burden of supporting a parent in his home.
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Vulnerable people need to be protected from being induced to seek assisted death as “shame relief,” a former Ontario Human Rights Commission chief commissioner told a conference on assisted dying in Ottawa on Saturday.
Continue Reading → Beware of assisted dying as ‘shame relief,’ former human rights commissioner says
Doctor-assisted suicide is legal, but Christian institutions have a long history of receiving public funding and yet refusing to discuss this practice.
Continue Reading → Catholic hospitals can’t avoid talking about physician-assisted suicide anymore