Assisted Suicide
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Written on 28 May, 2008 at 11:59 in
Assisted Suicide | Author:
Alex Schadenberg An important study of family members of 83 Oregon patients who requested physician-assisted suicide (PAD) shows that people who are being prescribed assisted suicide may not be experiencing significant symptoms of their disease. This study effectively proves that people are being given lethal doses for assisted suicide without fulfilling the reasons within the law. Because the study was so effective, almost no major media outlets reported its findings.... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jul, 2007 at 11:23 in
Assisted Suicide | Author:
Euthanasia activist and convicted murderer Jack Kevorkian, 79, was released June 1 after serving eight years of his 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder. Lawyer Mayer Morganroth argued his client’s health problems and good behaviour justified early release from prison. Kevorkian was charged and found guilty of the 1998 second-degree murder (by carbon monoxide poisoning) of Thomas Youk, 52, who had ALS. CBS’s 60 Minutes program subsequently ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 May, 2007 at 8:58 in
Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia | Author:
Gudrun Schultz and John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim The Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a statement clarifying the church’s position on euthanasia and assisted suicide. It is also calling on Catholics to question politicians about their stands on the issue.
“Catholics, like all other citizens, have the right and duty to participate in the political processes of our democracy,” the bishops state.... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2006 at 9:42 in
Assisted Suicide | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Assistant Editor
Few involved in the Terri Schiavo saga emerged unscathed after her brother appeared as guest speaker Oct. 27 at the annual gala dinner of the Right to Life Association of Toronto and Area, held in the northern suburb of Richmond Hill.
Bobby Schindler ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2006 at 9:25 in
Assisted Suicide, Society & Culture | Author:
Gudrun Schultz
Special to The Interim Physician-assisted suicide in the state of Oregon will be officially referred to as “death with dignity” from now on, the Oregon Department of Human Services has decided.
Responding to pressure from the pro-euthanasia organization Compassion & Choice, the DHS initially agreed to change “physician-assisted suicide” to “physician-assisted death,” part of an effort to employ “friendlier” language by the movement, in order to gain ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2006 at 9:21 in
Abortion, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Fetal Rights | Author:
Alex Schadenberg
The Interim It seems that negative attitudes toward people with disabilities have recently grown from the theoretical ideas of Peter Singer of Princeton University, who believes that it is acceptable to kill disabled infants, into the actual practice of allowing infants with disabilities to be euthanized. In any other time in history, this was known as the crime of infanticide. It is now becoming viewed as “dying with dignity.”... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Nov, 2006 at 7:58 in
Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Events | Author:
Alex Shadenberg
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, attended the World Federation of Right to Die Societies biennial conference in Toronto and learned a lot about its strategies to bring about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
This article is a shortened version of the full report that is available directly from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 10:30 in
Assisted Suicide | Author:
Terry Vanderheyden A psychologist, who accompanied a friend to a Swiss suicide clinic, was before a professional appeals panel on May 17, accused of misconduct. The College of Psychologists revisited the complaint against Peter Marshall, who wrote a letter to the National Post in December 2004 describing his trip to Switzerland with his friend ‘Su’ who killed herself with the help of Dignitas, a Swiss assisted suicide organization.... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 8:59 in
Assisted Suicide, Book Review, Euthanasia | Author:
Terri Schiavo - A Life That Matters by Mary and Robert Schindler
et al (Warner Books, $32.95 272 pages).
She's a human being," I cried out. "Nobody seems to notice." For well over a decade, these two sentences described the plight of Mary Schindler and her family. Medical experts had declared their daughter, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Mar, 2006 at 7:39 in
Assisted Suicide, Religion | Author:
Pete Vere
Like many Catholics and right-to-life activists, I was shocked to read about Michael Schiavo’s recent Catholic wedding to Jody Centonze. As Gudrun Schultz reported on LifeSiteNews.com, “Michael Schiavo, who had his disabled wife Terri killed last March by refusing her food and water, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Feb, 2006 at 9:13 in
Assisted Suicide | Author:
Hilary White The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to support Oregon legislation that allows physician-assisted suicide. Euthanasia opponents are now fearing that the door is now open for other states to allow euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The court ruled that the federal Controlled Substances Act does not allow the U.S. attorney-general to prohibit doctors from prescribing regulated drugs for use in physician-assisted suicides.... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Feb, 2006 at 9:09 in
Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Politics | Author:
Interim Staff
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition remains concerned that a bill to legalize euthanasia and/or assisted suicide is still capable of passing through the newly elected Parliament, even though the Conservative Party won a minority.
The election of a Conservative minority may not ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Feb, 2006 at 9:08 in
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Marielle Houle has been given a sentence of three years’ probation for assisting her son Charles Fariala to die.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition will be asking the new minister of justice, once named, to review the Houle’s sentence. EPC said it understands the health condition of Houle, but it recognizes that if there is no deterrent for the act of assisted suicide, there may be others who ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Dec, 2005 at 8:09 in
Assisted Suicide, Columnist, Euthanasia, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman
National Affairs Speaking in the House of Commons on Oct. 31, Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde said that “the Parliament of Canada and its members cannot dither any longer and expect the courts or government to make the necessary changes to the Criminal Code to recognize the right to die with dignity for the people of Quebec and Canada.”
There are ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Dec, 2005 at 8:07 in
Abortion, Assisted Suicide, Equal Rights, Euthanasia | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
The Interim
A proposal explicitly to deny pharmacists in Ontario a right to refuse to provide services on the basis of religious belief or personal conviction has implications beyond the matters of simply abortifacient medications and birth control. Some pharmacists fear that, under such a stricture, they may eventually be called on to dispense ... (Continue reading)
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