Read more. A bit ago, Germany’s high court created an absolute right to commit suicide and the concomitant right to have help in making oneself dead. Now, an Austrian court has said that committing suicide is a right of “self determination” and that obtaining help is part of that right. From the Tribune story: The court said that the right…
Today the Euthanasia Law will be voted on in the Spanish Congress of Deputies as the only point on the agenda In a true obsession with death, our leaders, in the midst of a pandemic wave caused by COVID with thousands of deaths, their proposal to citizens is to pass a law to eliminate the…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
