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By Ann Farmer As a disabled person, I find the campaign for assisted dying in the UK extremely worrying. No disability group in our country supports the move, which is perhaps why such voices are so seldom heard. I was glad to hear George Fielding, a disability rights...
By Right to Life UK An American woman has become the first to use the Sarco suicide machine in Switzerland despite the fact that its illegality was confirmed hours before her death, resulting in the arrest of four people. According to reports, a 64-year-old American...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Faith Ridler reported for Sky News (UK) on September 16, 2024 that: Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey is 'skeptical' of the case for assisted dying for 'quite personal' reasons. Ridler...
By Michael Cook With the world focused on the Olympics, the American elections, the war in Gaza, and the shifting balance of war in Ukraine, the topic of assisted dying is flying under the radar. But in the United Kingdom, it is high up on the political agenda. Lord...
By Michael Cook The United Kingdom’s new Labour government has a long to-do list. A dysfunctional National Health Service. An economy in the doldrums. Net zero. A prisons crisis. Ukraine. Gaza. Relations with Europe. Immigration. The cost of living. But so far the...
By Dave Andrusko The Korea Biomedical Review is reporting that there’s been a “backlash” from the medical community to the re-proposed “Assisted Dying with Dignity Act”. “A bill that attempts to turn doctors into a tool for assisted suicide (euthanasia), although...
"I am not you, and you have no right to push me to accept MAiD. I will never accept it! My life has value and no human being has a right to say otherwise." By Heather Hancock, an author and editor. Editor’s note. This appeared on the blog of Alex Schadenberg and...
By Wesley J. Smith Euthanasia isn’t really about compassion but fear of decline and a loathing of dependency — and of those experiencing them. That nasty truth has become abundantly clear with a new column published in the Times of London in which former Tory MP...
By Micheal Cook In March, a committee of Ireland’s parliament recommended that “the Government introduce legislation allowing for assisted dying.” If this is approved, Irish doctors will be ready to implement it. In the latest edition of its Guide to Professional...
By Michael Cook A quadriplegic Quebec man has chosen assisted dying because of a bedsore he acquired when a hospital failed to give him a special pressure mattress. In January Normand Meunier went to the emergency section of a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, for a...