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Study uncovers euthanasia deaths based on loneliness in the Netherlands Source: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS December 11, 2020

Read more. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on December 7, 2020; titled: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in Patients With Multiple Geriatric Syndromes examines 53 euthanasia deaths based on multiple geriatric syndromes (MGS) in the Netherlands. 19 of the 53 MGS euthanasia deaths listed loneliness as a primary reason. The study authors, state that…

Nothing to celebrate after 20 years of the Euthanasia Law in the Netherlands: the exception becomes the rule

Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS December 2, 2020

Read more. Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the promulgation of the euthanasia law in the Netherlands. Despite the fact that this practice is fully accepted by the majority of the Dutch people, the debate continues. It is actually, not more about the convenience of a law that regulates euthanasia, but about its extension:…

Restore hope to Europe!

Abortion, Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS October 15, 2020

The European Federation for Life and Human Dignity ONE OF US, which brings together several dozen pro-life organizations from almost all European countries, accepts with the utmost attention and hope the information that the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland will decide on October 22 whether abortion due to suspected disease or disability in an unborn child…

Belgian court cleared three doctors in the euthanasia death of Tine Nys (38)

Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS October 8, 2020

Read more. Belgium news is reporting that a retrial has been ordered in the euthanasia death of Tine Nys (38) who died in 2010. HLN reported the following on September 15: The Court of Cassation has decided that a new trial will be brought against the doctor who performed the euthanasia on Tine Nys. The Court…

Decalogue for dying well

Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS October 6, 2020

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Euthanasia: The theory is not the same as the reality

Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS October 1, 2020

Read more. When debating euthanasia, legislators and voters (New Zealand referendum) assume that an assisted death is quick and peaceful. This is important because people often support assisted suicide based on fear of a painful death. What is not known is that assisted suicide activists have been experimenting for several years with lethal drug cocktails on people…

“Thousands of people have died alone and yet the euthanasia law has run its course”

Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS September 30, 2020

Read more. The specialist in Bioethics points out that the new norm “does not respond to an urgent or quantitatively numerous social demand”. The director of the Bioethics Institute of the Francisco de Vitoria University, Elena Postigo, is one of the hundred personalities of Spanish public life who has signed the manifesto against the euthanasia…

“When the world looks for a solution to the pandemic, our deputies debate on how to end the lives of the weakest”

Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS September 30, 2020

Read more. The president of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, Mónica López Barahona, has joined a large group of doctors, academics, politicians, businessmen and representatives of civil society who – grouped together under the “Los 7.000” platform – have decided to raise their voices to ask the Congress of Deputies to stop the processing of the…

Legalize euthanasia, increase suicides

Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS September 16, 2020

Read more. The Conservative Woman published an article on September 13 by Theo Boer analysing the suicide statistics in the Netherlands. Boer was a member of a Regional Euthanasia Review Committee in the Netherlands for 10 years and has done significant analysis of the experience with euthanasia in the NetherlandsProfessor Boer states: Last week I addressed a group…

Support for euthanasia declines when the matter is thought slower

Euthanasia, NewsBy ONEOFUS September 3, 2020

Read more. Many polls in different countries give a majority of the public in favor of legalizing euthanasia. But things change if, instead of asking a generic question, people are asked to consider specific situations that bring out the complexity of the matter, as Dominic R. Mangino and other researchers have verified with a study that…

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