New Zealand debate on euthanasia

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…

Lithuania declares the business of the surrogacy contrary to the dignity of women

Read more. Lithuania has declared the business of surrogacy contrary to the dignity of women and children.While  in some countries  a revision of the laws is demanded to accept surrogacy, and while the different jurisdictions increasingly accept the fait accompli when carried out abroad, Lithuania rebels against this practice and declares it radically contrary to dignity The Lithuanian Parliament, called…

Demographic suicide and mutation of the West

Read more. Immigration can’t solve all the problems arisen from low birth rates and related issues. It doesn’t stop societal aging , but just slows down its progression . Immigrants also age and will generate rights to pensions and other welfare benefits. And we can ´ t cope with the growing loneliness problem through immigrants:…

Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100

Read more. The English novelist P.D. James wrote a dystopian novel in 1992 entitled The Children of Men. Set in the year 2021, the novel describes a world where all human males have become sterile, and children have disappeared. As the last generation turns age 25, societies give way to strange beliefs, unspeakable cruelties, systematic euthanasia, and hopelessness. According…

‘Completed’ life in the Netherlands

In January 2020 a report (by ‘Commission van Wijngaarden’) was presented which concluded that approx. 1.8 % of all persons of 55 years and up, have a wish to end their lives, without being ill. They do not suffer unbearably and hopelessly, but consider their lives to be “complete”. The researchers noted that the death…