The recent assisted suicide report from the California Department of Public Health indicates that there were 111 reported assisted suicide deaths in 2016. Read more >>
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On November 4, 2014, sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, leapt in front of a commuter train. His death is one of many in a number of clusters that are becoming increasingly common.
Continue Reading → Dying of despair
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Jerry Coyne, a professor in the department of ecology and human evolution at the University of Chicago, recently posted a defense of killing disabled infants on his Why Evolution Is True blog. This reasoning makes sense only in a “throwaway culture,” which presumes that it’s right to discard the weakest and most vulnerable simply because they don’t meet an arbitrarily imposed marker of when life is worth saving.
Continue Reading → University of Chicago Professor: Infanticide Is Morally Acceptable
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The proposed measure in South Dakota to legalize assisted suicide actually allows someone else to administer the lethal dose to a patient.
Continue Reading → Someone Else can Administer the Lethal Assisted Suicide Dose to the Patient
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Prosecutors say Massachusetts teenager Conrad Roy was coaxed by text messages from his girlfriend into killing himself had researched suicide online, a defence witness testified on Friday.
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