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By Dave Andrusko For more than 25 years I’ve had the privilege of leading an adult Sunday school class. We share “Joys and Concerns” each week and since many of the members have parents who are aging rapidly and/or in declining health, we often talk about what that...
By Nancy Valko An April, 2019 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Death From Individuals Who Learn They Have an Alzheimer Disease Biomarker” found that approximately 20% of cognitively normal older...
By Dave Andrusko Excluding children, who are utterly powerless, no vulnerable group is more exposed to “assisted suicide” than patients with Alzheimer’s, especially advanced Alzheimer’s. That is why you are seeing more and more trials balloons—for example, “Should...
By Wesley J. Smith The medically vulnerable have rarely been in greater jeopardy. Alzheimer’s disease patients are at particular risk. In a recent poll from Quebec—where lethal-injection euthanasia is legal—a chilling 72 percent of caregivers favor permitting...
By Michael Cook Negative attitudes towards Alzheimer’s disease are an undue influence on the euthanasia debate, claims an Australian bioethicist. Deakin University Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone has examined the ‘Alzheimerisation’ of the euthanasia debate in her book,...
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through August 25. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last ten months....
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through August 25. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last ten...
By Michael Cook Quebec is about to embark upon a debate on the involuntary euthanasia of demented elderly after a 55-year-old man in Montreal allegedly smothered his Alzheimer’s stricken wife and posted what he had done on Facebook. Michel Cadotte was charged with...
Supporters of 'aid-in-dying' already want to expand the law By Aubert Martin The euthanasia machine has once again become activated, following the “compassionate” murder of a woman with advanced stage Alzheimer’s [in Quebec]. Although the details are not yet known, it...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The alleged murder in Montréal Monday of a woman with Alzheimer’s has led to renewed pressure by the euthanasia lobby to extend "MAID" [Medical Assistance In Dying] to incompetent people. “Under...