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Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Canadian Association of Physician Assistants (CAPA) has advised its members that they are not required to directly participate in physician assisted death (euthanasia and assisted suicide) but...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The recent report of the federal government's Special Committee on Assisted Dying stated (recommendation 11) that every publicly funded healthcare institution should be required to allow...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On February 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada's assisted suicide law. It has now given parliament an extension until June 6, 2016 to implement a new law. On February 25,...
Editor’s note. This appeared at alexschadenberg.blogspot.com.. The writer asked to remain anonymous out of respect for the privacy of the family. My grand-mother is 95 years old. She lives in a nursing home in Belgium, and we, her family, live on another continent....
By Mark Davis Pickup The new head of Canada's Medical Association, Dr. Chris Simpson, has stated that doctor assisted death could be appropriate after all other choices have been exhausted. Really? He said there are enough doctors willing to kill their patients...
By Wesley J. Smith The culture of death is like a cancer sapping the moral health of western society. And, like a cancer, it never stops spreading. Here’s how: I wrote earlier today about Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu supporting palliated self starvation as a...
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The media is promoting the sad story of Susan Griffiths, a Winnipeg Manitoba woman who decided to die at the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland. Griffiths has Multiple System Atrophy, a...
By Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a British organization with 4,500 doctors and 1,000 medical students. I see that Dignity in Dying (the former Voluntary Euthanasia Society), which campaigns for the legalisation of...