“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…
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,…
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…
The debate on euthanasia is coming closer in Portugal and a proposal of law is expected in the first quarter of 2017. Meanwhile, a petition for “Assisted Death” is making its way on the parliament (nine thousand signatures) and an important prolife group of associations expect to deliver another petition at the parliament the first…