By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. There is an editorial in the British Medical Journal by a...
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A “Life Worth Ending” or a “Life Worth Celebrating”?
By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha All week I meant to talk about a remarkably depressing—and ominous—article written by Michael Wolff for New York Magazine about his mother’s Alzheimer’s. The title gives you some idea where he’s headed: “A Life Worth Ending.”...
The privilege of remembering for both of us
By Dave Andrusko Last year it was a distinct privilege for my wife and I to grow close to an elderly lady in her last few months. We were not officially “family,” so we weren’t told any of the medical details. But two things were obvious to anyone (including those...
Does Dutch Euthanasia for Patients with Dementia Expose a Threat to U.S. Patients?
Jennifer Popik, J.D. Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Reports coming out of the Netherlands add to mounting evidence that physician-assisted suicide, over time, leads to the nonvoluntary...
Euthanasia of people with dementia in the Netherlands
Editor’s note. This first appeared on the blog of Alex Schadenberg, executive editor of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. The Daily Mail paper in the UK reported on June 29, the for the first time euthanasia of people with dementia has been included in the official...