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'Completed life' euthanasia will soon be legalised in the Netherlands By Michael Cook In the 19th Century a statue of Tanonius Marcellinus, consul of Campania (now the region around Naples) was unearthed in the town of Benevento. It bore a remarkable inscription, one...
By Dave Andrusko I lead an adult Sunday school class and many of the members have parents who are aging rapidly and/or in declining health. We often talk about what that entails, not only for them, but for their siblings and even for the grandkids. Earlier this week I...
By Paul Russell Philip Nitschke is surprised and dismayed that British Police tried to stop a retired English professor from committing suicide at her home near of Exeter in the UK recently. When police attended the home of Dr.. Avril Henry after Interpol had informed...
By Michael Cook Doctors need to be able to recognize the tell-tale signs of elder abuse, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, because about 10% of the elderly experience some form of abuse. “Thus, a busy physician caring for older adults will encounter a...
By Mary Prentis As a twenty-four year old woman, I know it’s very rare to be blessed with three living grandparents. I have fond memories of special nights at their houses, exciting Florida days on their boat, and their support and attendance at various school...
WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee is urging Congressional action to keep an Obama Administration proposal to pay doctors for “advance care planning” in Medicare from taking effect, and instead to provide for balanced, neutral materials to assist...
By Burke J. Balch, J.D., director, Powell Center for Medical Ethics at the National Right to Life Committee Last week, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) introduced S. 1549, the Care Planning Act of 2015, to use federal tax dollars to pay...
By Micaiah Bilger, Education Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation I stumbled on an interesting article today about our assumptions about growing old. The Wall Street Journal piece “Why Everything You Think about Aging May Be Wrong” examines people’s...
A touching documentary asks why so many elderly have been abandoned in dehumanising nursing homes. By Michael Cook Caring for patients with dementia will probably be one of the biggest human dignity issues of our century, as the proportion of elderly grows...
By Dave Andrusko To put it mildly, a headline that read only, “Pope's Meeting With the Elderly in St. Peter's Square” missed all that was special Sunday in a gathering Pope Francis (and his predecessor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) had with elderly from around...