Each dying patient has their own context and belief frame for their “suffering.” Each case has its own mix of causes, and things that make it worse or better. When we fully understand what’s going on, it is rare that suffering can’t be greatly palliated. It then follows that the perceived need to end life to alleviate suffering is a very rare occurrence.
Continue Reading → With assisted suicide, context is everything
Thanks to a referral from a compassionate ER nurse, Francis Young ended up at the West Island Palliative Care Residence, a hospice in Kirkland, Que., that has a reputation as one of Canada’s best – a model for how end-of-life care should be delivered.
Continue Reading → ‘I know I’m going to have a good death’: Why palliative care matters
An open letter from the president of Not Dead Yet, an American disability rights group, to the Victoria Legislative Council.
When even assisted suicide supporters admit data suggests that the “distress prompting patients to request these lethal medications primarily stems from their fear over losing control at the end of life” but claim that the more than 33% who don’t take the prescribed lethal overdose should still have it to supposedly “get great comfort in knowing they have access to it if they need it”, physician-assisted suicide is further exposed as a terrible response to human fear and despair.
Continue Reading → Defending Physician-assisted Suicide
An article by Kenny Fries on the killing techniques developed by the Nazis and their application to people with disabilities.
Continue Reading → The Nazis’ First Victims Were the Disabled: