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…
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…
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…
Read more. When debating the legalization of euthanasia or assisted suicide, the specific language of the legislation is often overlooked while people debate the concept assisted death. The language in the 122 page Tasmania End of Life Choices bill which is expected to have its second reading in the Upper House on September 15, allows for a…
Read more. Nursing homes in the UK were asked by government health managers and family doctors to place blanket “Do not resuscitate” (DNR) orders on all residents at the height of the coronavirus pandemic to keep hospital beds free, a report has alleged. The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) surveyed 128 nurses and care home managers about their…
Read more. Recently there has been an awakening concerning the eugenic attitudes of past leaders. Many leaders in the past believed that the lives of people with disabilities had less value. Today’s society thinks that it is more enlightened and more supportive of people with disabilities. The study I am writing about today indicates that eugenic attitudes towards newborns…
In the midst of the devastation that the CoVid19 pandemic has caused and continues today originating in terms of human lives, some countries continue to focus their efforts on eliminating those lives that seem to be considered “less worthy” of being lived.This is the case of New Zealand debate on euthanasia as the country approaches…
Tom Mortier’s lawyers presented an appeal to the Belgian euthanasia law based on the death of Mortier’s mother suffering from depression at the European Court of Human Rights Legal representatives of Mortier seeking justice in the 2012 euthanized death of his depressed mother Godelieve De Troyer have stated that Mr. Mortier was informed the day after his mother…