Past March, 118 bishops in France signed a statement entitled, “End of life: Yes to the urgency of fraternity!” In the document, the French bishops proposed six ethical reasons for opposing the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide, which are at the core of the bill, and which in turn is the subject of a…
Un grupo de médicos quebequenses celebró una conferencia de prensa para explicar que la falta de fondos para los cuidados paliativos en Quebec está empujando a las personas a buscar la muerte por eutanasia. Las noticias de la CTV informaron que los médicos indicaron que desde que se legalizó MAiD, el acceso a los cuidados…
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“I am a disabled person and I don’t back the ‘right to die’ for one very important reason.” This is the title of an important new article published in The Independent on the 5th of October. The author, James Moore, suffers from severe physical disabilities, and is reliant upon drugs and medical interventions in order “to be able…
Suicide pill introduced in the Netherlands “The slippery slope is behind us” In the Netherlands more and more people die from euthanasia, which is accounting for 4.5 percent of all deaths. According to researchers, requests from people who aren’t terminally ill are increasing. “Euthanasia is now considered as a right”, says Kees van Helden of…
[:es]Países Bajos registra 6.091 decesos por este procedimiento en 2016, un 10% más que el año anterior
The Times of Malta published a New Year’s interview of Chief Justice emeritas Vincent De Gaetano, of the European Court of Human Rights in Malta, conducted by Matthew Xuereb. Xuereb asked Justice De Gaetano about euthanasia, assisted suicide, and Vincent Lambert, who was severely brain-injured in an accident in 2008. Justice De Gaetano responded: One cannot…
Huffington Post, Canada (09.01.2017) The Carter decision to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia claimed that Canada could avoid abuses through careful guidelines and screening. Medically facilitated elder abuse by greedy relatives and medicalized suicide for the depressed — a grim reality where this practice is legal — were supposed to be avoidable, said the judge,…
Religión en Libertad (09.01.2017). La ley canadiense que promueve la eutanasia es aún más permisiva que las leyes belga u holandesa, hasta el punto de que el inicio de su aplicación se ha traducido en un número elevadísimo de muertes. La eutanasia en Canadá fue legalizada en junio de 2016 y por lo menos 744…
Alex van Vuuren, Schreeuw om Leven In October the Dutch government came with a new initiative for a law regarding euthanasia. This new law will expand the existing legal euthanasia practice in The Netherlands, but will be a separate law. A parliamentary committee earlier this year however had clearly stated that an expansion of the…