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German Identical Twins Receive Death on Demand

People Magazine seems eager to platform the idea of death on demand
Suicide is increasingly seen as an empowering act. This is the darkness into which the euthanasia movement is taking jurisdictions, some faster, some slower. Read More ›
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Assisted-Suicide Slippery Slope Keeps Slip-Sliding Away

“Strengthen safety,” and “fairer and more compassionate,” really just means more people can become dead much sooner
The ultimate destination for assisted suicide will be the creation of a fundamental right to be made dead, regardless of the reason, i.e., death on demand. Read More ›
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Hollywood A Listers To Star in a Pro-Assisted Suicide Movie

How many pro-euthanasia movies/TV episodes have there been? How many with the opposite message?
There are plenty of dramatic stories illustrating the abuses and dangers of assisted suicide, just waiting to be told, but Hollywood won’t tell them. Read More ›
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Vials with Sodium pentobarbital used for euthanasia and lethal inyecion in a hospital, conceptual image

Elderly Couple Avoids Widowhood by Assisted Suicide

The British couple sent emails to announce their decision to end their lives at a Swiss clinic
One joint euthanasia homicide in Belgium of an elderly couple was arranged by their son so the children could avoid future caregiving. Read More ›
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J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalizing Assisted Suicide

The mega author , of Harry Potter fame, is definitely a political liberal
Liberal leaders of popular culture usually boost assisted suicide when they take a side. I hope her advocacy convinces the Lords to kill the bill, not the ill. Read More ›
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Attacks on Medical Conscience: Forcing Doctors to Take Human Life

As more states legalize assisted suicide and abortion through the ninth month, the medical conscience issue is again bubbling to the surface
The movement to quash medical conscience has been ongoing for many years and it has become politically partisan. Read More ›
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Suicide and support

Swiss Death Clinics Celebrated By Suicide Pushers

One Swiss clinic even “prioritizes people who are elderly but not seriously ill”
Geriatric suicides used to be considered a tragedy. But these days, increasingly, they are celebrated. Read More ›
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pour ou contre l'euthanasie ?

Wesley J. Smith: Why Is Assisted Suicide So Popular So Suddenly?

Smith argues that the purpose of society itself is shifting for many people
In Canada, many stories attest that euthanasia is now routinely offered to those requesting medical care. Read More ›
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France: Assisted Suicide on the March

Right-to-die campaigners have welcomed the law, though describing it as relatively modest in scope.
“It’s a foot in the door, which will be important for what comes next,” said Stéphane Gemmani of the ADMD association. Read More ›
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Syringe with anaesthetic drug - Propofol, ready for infusion.

The Lies in New York’s Assisted Suicide Bill

New York is close to passing a bill to legalize assisted suicide. Having passed the assembly, it is currently being considered in the senate
Falsifying death certificates, for example, prevents transparency. Investigators will be unable to access the information they need to conduct independent studies. Read More ›
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Estonia’s Supreme Court Declares a Right to Suicide

At least these rulings candidly cut through the toxic smoke so often generated by assisted-suicide advocates
Such rulings demonstrate that the real goal/destination is a right to death by any competent person for any cause and assisted by anyone. Read More ›
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Beauty injection concept. Syringe with violet liquid for hypodermic injection.

New Jersey Program Aims to Prevent Suicide— Just Not All Suicides

In New Jersey, the self-terminations of people with a prognosis of six months or less ceases to be “suicide” when facilitated by a doctor
Yet terminally ill patients opt for assisted suicide typically because of issues such as fears of burdening family, losing dignity, not untreatable pain. Read More ›
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Famed Ethics Prof Endorses Suicide for Old People in New York Times

Peter Singer supports suicide not just for those who are ill now but who fear that they might become so
Do the philosophers not understand how bigoted and anti-intrinsic dignity of life their relativistic assumptions are about when a life is worth continuing? Read More ›
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Vials with Sodium pentobarbital used for euthanasia and lethal inyecion in a hospital, conceptual image

Swiss Canton Liberates Suicide Tourism from Police Investigation

Suicidal people are increasingly abandoned to lethal assistance, with steps continually taken to make death easier to access
Predictably, assisted suicides are provided under ever-lessening oversight, to ever-expanding cadres of the eligible, leading eventually to death on demand. Read More ›
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Oregon Bill Would Allow Nondoctors to Prescribe Assisted Suicide

I suspect the categories of providers are expanding because most doctors have no interest in assisted suicide
Usefully, however, the Oregon bill also requires hospices to say whether they participate in assisted suicide, contrary to hospice founders’ intentions. Read More ›
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Syringe with anaesthetic drug - Propofol, ready for infusion.

Vermont Bill Would Allow Nondoctors to Prescribe Assisted Suicide

Initial assisted suicide laws are merely the launching pad for an ever-expanding prescribed death regime
“Strict guidelines” against abuse sell such laws to the public but they are never the ceiling of permissibility. The rules are loosened more and more. Read More ›
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Montana Senate Passes Bill Outlawing Physician-Assisted Suicide

In a muddled legal situation, the bill declares assisted suicide to be contrary to Montana public policy, making a previous courtroom defense unavailable
Legislation like this must be carefully written because assisted-suicide activists frequently redefine terms and obfuscate crucial distinctions. Read More ›
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Syringe with anaesthetic drug - Propofol, ready for infusion.

Assisted-Suicide Death Ceremonies Becoming Normalized

I certainly believe we should all remember that we are going to die as a means of focusing our faith or concentrating on how to live better lives
By attending a suicide party or ceremony, we validate the decision and, in so doing, become complicit in that death. Read More ›
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Rita Marker, the Great Anti-Assisted-Suicide Champion, Dead at 83

I am convinced that in her time, Rita was the most effective anti-assisted-suicide/euthanasia champion in the world
Unlike organizations on the other side of this issue, anti-assisted-suicide work doesn’t have the backing of billionaires like George Soros. Read More ›
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28-Year-Old Woman Schedules Euthanasia Appointment in the Netherlands

It's shocking, but more and more people are choosing to die to escape any kind of pain

According to The Free Press, a shocking 5% of deaths in the Netherlands in 2022 were from euthanasia. Zoraya ter Beek, a 28-year-old woman from the Netherlands, was approved for euthanasia because of her struggles with mental health and is scheduled to die in May. It’s a dark and tragic story, but reflects how more and more people in the West are seeing death as the only way out of pain. Free Press reporter Rupa Subramanya writes, There won’t be any funeral. She doesn’t have much family; she doesn’t think her friends will feel like going. Instead, her boyfriend will scatter her ashes in “a nice spot in the woods” that they have chosen together, she said. “I’m a little Read More ›