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)
Australia’s Northern Territory has passed the world’s first law legalizing euthanasia. The tiny tropical territory, with a population of only 180,000, recently passed a law which allows its terminally ill residents to ask doctors to end their lives. The bill was actually passed last year but had to be sent back for rewording. Pro-life groups as well as the Australian Medical Association tried to lobby the government to repeal the legislation rather than vote on an Amendment bill, with the new wording. ... (Continue reading)
Man in custody for murder of local Right to Die Society president Edmonton Right to Die Society president Bruce Hutchinson, 41, got his wish last April. Firemen responded to a 911 call found his lifeless body slumped in an easy chair, with a single bullet hole in his forehead. Police initially assumed suicide; but the death-weapon was missing. So they upgraded the case to homicide- a category including assisted suicide. Now, over seven months later, Edmonton City Police have charged Philip Michael ... (Continue reading)
26 suicides and no signs of letting up for Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian has attended his 26th assisted suicide. The body of Patricia Cashman, a 58-year-old woman, was found in the back seat of a car. The official cause of death is homicide by carbon monoxide poisioning. Kevorkian does not deny his part in the death of Cashman, On Larry King Life, Nov. 9th, Kevorkian challenged the prosecution of the state of Michigan. “I dare you to charge me. If you don’t ... (Continue reading)
Former convicted of second-degree murder was awaiting Supreme Court appeal The Saskatchewan Justice Department has granted Robert Latimer the right to a new trial. Latimer has been confined to his farm near Wilkie, Saskatchewan since the upholding of his July conviction of a second degree murder in the death of his daughter, Tracy, aged 12, in October of 1993. Latimer was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 10 years after killing Tracy because she “lived with cerebral palsy. His conviction ... (Continue reading)
Pro-euthanasia group uses suffering man to raise legal funds over the Internet Canadian pro-life groups took their first steps on the information highway at the beginning of October when Kelowna Right to Life inaugurated LifeNET and Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia launched the “Save Austin Bastable” web site. LifeNET is designed not only for pro-life activists, but for students researching school projects on the life issues, as well as the curious and hostile. Ted Gerk, executive director of Kelowna Right to ... (Continue reading)
Edited by Ian Gentles Stoddart Publishing, 1995. 131 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Sue Careless You are a high-profile, public advocate against euthanasia, but in your private life your own father, dying of bowel, stomach and liver cancer, begs you to assist him in suicide. What do you do? Ian Gentles, the editor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Current Debate recounts how, for him, euthanasia hit home. It is one of the most moving passages in a fine book. We who take public stands on ... (Continue reading)
An atheist colleague argues that there is nothing wrong, and a lot right, in giving lethal injection to a comatose person or anyone else who has no chance of recovery. How did I answer? V.L. Melville, Sask. Years ago, in a detective novel by Dorothy Sayers, I read this same argument put to an Anglican priest. His answer, in part was as follows: “I think the wrongness of the thing lies much more in the harm it does to the ... (Continue reading)
Saskatchewan farmer who killed his disabled daughter now looks to the Supreme Court to overturn his ten-year sentence. Robert Latimer’s conviction and jai sentence for the euthanasia killing of his disabled daughter, Tracy, has been upheld by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, but Latimer has been released from custody pending word on whether the Supreme Court of Canada will hear his appeal of the lower courts’ decisions. Three provincial appeal court judges ruled on July 18 that Robert Latimer was properly ... (Continue reading)
The following message was downloaded from Deathnet, the computer bulletin board run by John Hofsess and the Right to Die Society. In the wake of the recently released Report by the Senate Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide…I have today sent email messages to the heads of five chapters of the Right to Die Society of Canada asking them to let me know within 48 hours if they are willing to become more deeply and actively involved in assisting in ... (Continue reading)
The following message was downloaded from the Deathnet, the computer bulletin board run by John Hofsess and the Right to Die Society. “ In the wake of the recently released Report by the Senate Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide…I have today sent e-mail messages to the heads of five chapters of The Right to Die Society of Canada, asking them to let me know within 48 hours if they are willing to become more deeply and actively involved in ... (Continue reading)
During 1994, the Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide heard much evidence and many arguments from more than 120 individuals and groups, the clear majority of whom supported the current law. Sanctity of Life: Sanctity of life arguments featured prominently. Some of these were specifically Christian in nature, some were Jewish, others appealed to Canadian tradition, while others appealed to reason alone. Other argued that the right to life is the basis of all other rights and therefore there can be ... (Continue reading)
Seven senators sat in a committee in Ottawa for 15 months, hearing from 150 witnesses, reading over 300 briefs, only to conclude that the law is too harsh on those convicted of killing the terminally ill or disabled. No doubt there are many who will read those words and accuse The Interim of deliberately distorting a sensitive issue, of not showing compassion and understanding for those driven to desperate acts. Many will point to the senator’s unanimous championing of palliative care and ... (Continue reading)
In what well may be summed up as a typically Canadian compromise, the Senate Committee on euthanasia has managed to issue a report which pleases neither pro-life and disability-advocate groups, nor the pro-radicals. The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide was sharply split, narrowly voting to recommend that both voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide remain illegal in Canada. It was unanimous, however, in its view that those convicted of mercy killing crimes should receive lighter sentences. It also agreed ... (Continue reading)
No jail time for doctor convicted of murdering disabled child A Dutch doctor who ended the life of a handicapped child has been found guilty of murder. Incredibly, not only did the judge free him without sentence but even went so far as commending the doctor for his “integrity and courage.” This case was supposed to be a test of the controversial Dutch mercy killing law which allows doctors to end the life of a terminally ill patient if the patient ... (Continue reading)
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