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By Michael Cook The founder of Switzerland’s best known assisted suicide group, Dignitas, has been cleared of charges of “profiteering” from helping people to die. The public prosecutor contended that that the 85-year-old Ludwig Minelli had used "unauthorised...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Ludwig Minelli, the founder of the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic, has been charged for profiteering in the deaths of his clients. Accusations that Minelli charges inappropriate fees at the...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Editor’s note. The ratio of French francs to American dollars is almost exactly 1-1. So, for example, 200 francs is $199.67. By contrast each British pound equals $1.35. In response to the latest...
By Wesley J. Smith Here’s the advocacy con advanced by suicide promoters in the UK to bludgeon Parliament into legalizing doctor-prescribed death. First, get the media to publish pro-suicide stories of Brits flying to Switzerland for death at a clinic. The...
By Dave Andrusko I don’t know who “Richard and Judy” are other than that they write a column for the Daily Express and are characterized (by the Daily Express) as “Britain's best-loved TV couple.” But I do know who “Anne” is. She is (in the words of another...
By Wesley J. Smith Assisted suicide is not about terminal illness. Assisted suicide is not about disability. Assisted suicide is not about mental illness. Assisted suicide is about suicide! All pretense otherwise was stripped off the movement as the Daily Mail...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. A 65-year-old woman and her son from the Chichester area have...
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Dr Chai Patel, who oversees 230 nursing homes in Britain is calling for establishment of suicide clinics. According to the Telegraph newspaper Patel stated at the National Care Homes Congress that...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. The papers are full today of a report (initially carried by...
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...