France Legalizes Euthanasia
This may merely be the launching pad for an ever more expansive euthanasia regimeOnce euthanasia starts, it picks up steam year by year by year as hastened death becomes normalized.
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‘Death by Organ Donation’ Pushed in New England Journal of Medicine
Killing for organs can quickly become the primary reason for granting someone’s request to die “as a plum to society” (as I predicted back in 1993)Killing to harvest organs is now sufficiently mainstream for NPR to have featured one of the latest proposal’s authors in a respectful interview.
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Anglican Church of Canada: Pastoral Liturgies Blessing Euthanasia
This will be of no consequence to those who are not believers. But for Christians throughout history, blessing euthanasia would be a most profound scandalThe earliest Christian ethical writing dating from about 100 — the Didache — explicitly condemns “murder” as profoundly sinful.
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Twelve-Year-Old Euthanized in the Netherlands: Not a First
Dutch teenagers have also been euthanized over the years, including some with mental illnessesThe issue isn’t whether children are euthanized so much as whether doctors and nurse practitioners should be permitted under the law to kill patients or assist their suicides regardless of the patients’ age.
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RFK Jr. Calls Assisted Suicide Laws ‘Abhorrent’
It targets people with disabilities and people who are struggling in their lives.We can’t “be a moral society around the globe” if assisted suicide/euthanasia “becomes institutionalized throughout our society.”
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Activists Want Fewer Animal — but More Human — Deaths by Euthanasia
Dangerous animals that have attacked humans should be euthanized.A bill has been put in the hopper in the California State Senate promoting “coexistence” between people and wild animals.
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Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill Increasing in the Netherlands
Requests for euthanasia on psychiatric grounds have risen sharplyThe Dutch experiment with psychiatric euthanasia, particularly in youth, can no longer be described as cautious, balanced, or exemplary.
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Woman Euthanized and Her Face Transplanted in Spain
Do you see what happened? There were apparently no efforts at suicide prevention to keep the patient in lifeFrom what the story discloses, the primary focus of the medical team became the 3-D planning and preparation for the surgery after the killing.
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Lawsuit in Canada to Force Catholic Hospitals to Permit Euthanasia
When doctors’ Christian beliefs lose to bureaucratic powerThe desires of the individual should overcome the religious beliefs of the institution. Forcing doctors or medical institutions to participate in the intentional taking of human life is not freedom.
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Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?
I believe that people need to be aware of the unthinkable actions, once (properly) deemed abandonment, that are now being advocated at the highest levels of cultural influenceThaddeus Mason Pope’s argument is an argument not to avoid suffering but to not be a “burden” and to put oneself out of loved ones’ misery.
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Kilmeade: ‘Just Kill’ Mentally Ill Homeless Who Refuse Help
Kilmeade, who later offered a terse apology, is not a would-be TikTok influencer. He is a major personality on the country’s most watched cable news channelKilmeade — and Fox — should apologize. And perhaps he should work to keep his emotions in check while broadcasting. With great influence comes equal responsibility.
Read More ›The Atlantic Details the Horrors of Canadian Euthanasia
The story includes examples of people who have had themselves killed because they couldn’t access proper support services, and many other casesMAiD turns some suicides and homicides into a “good.” A 2023 poll found that 28% of Canadians polled favored allowing euthanasia for homelessness.
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What Canada’s Collapsing Health Care System Means
It means that people die who might have lived if they had access to health careMore than 15,000 people died in Canada in one year because they couldn’t access care in the country’s collapsing socialized health-care system.
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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 worldUnlike organizations on the other side of this issue, anti-assisted-suicide work doesn’t have the backing of billionaires like George Soros.
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Disabled Canadian Euthanized Due to Lack of Care
He asked for and received euthanasia explicitly because of a lack of careQuebec’s chief coroner promises an investigation. Don’t expect much to come of it.
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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 painAccording 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 ›
Euthanasia’s Slippery Slope
Once a society embraces death as the answer to suffering, what counts as suffering never stops expanding.Note well that the concept of the “completed life” need not involve any physical illness, disabling condition, or psychiatric malady at all.
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Zero K: A Novel About Escaping the World Through Technology
Zero K by novelist Don DeLillo is a frightening but prophetic tale of transhumanism and the temptation to evade suffering at all costs.The book is prophetic, merging two pertinent issues into one speculative tale: euthanasia and transhumanism.
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CDC Neglects to Include Assisted Deaths in Official Suicide Report
Assisted dying is a form of suicide, regardless of the ways our culture has euphemized the termThe term suicide defines what is done, not why. In other words, assisted suicides are as much suicides as jumping off a bridge.
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The Small Steps That Lead to Dystopia
Revisiting a 1993 article warning about the future of assisted suicideEditor’s Note: The following piece was originally published in Newsweek in June 1993. Today is my 76th birthday,” the letter began. “Unassisted and by my own free will, I have chosen to take my final passage.” Suicide. My friend Frances died in a cold, impersonal hotel room after taking an overdose of sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head suffocating the life out of her body. Frances was not a happy woman. She had family troubles. She suffered from chronic lymphatic leukemia and was facing the difficult prospect of a hip replacement. She also had a chronic nerve condition that caused her to feel a burning sensation on her skin. But Frances was lucid, aware and involved. Read More ›