Death through despair and deception By Eric Metaxas with Roberto Rivera We could have predicted this: Canada may extend the “right to die” to the mentally ill. It’s an evil idea. In 2015, Canada legalized physician-assisted suicide. We have talked about the Canadian...
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Mentally Ill Woman Euthanized in Canada
By Wesley J. Smith I did a radio interview yesterday warning that I expected Canada to, one day, allow euthanasia as a “treatment” for serious mental illness. Today, I find out it already happened. A court apparently allowed a mentally ill woman to be euthanized. From...
Canada Push To Allow Mentally Ill Euthanasia
By Wesley J. Smith Euthanasia/assisted suicide is NOT about terminal illness. The issue is about normalizing killing as a response to human suffering. Sure, the initial sales pitch would restrict doctor-administered or prescribed death to the dying. But that’s just to...
Establishing a global ethical principle that mentally ill patients cannot be euthanized
By Dave Andrusko Back in August Washington Post columnist Charles Lane wrote eloquently in opposition to the euthanasia movement’s “mission creep,” specifically killing patients who are not terminally ill and more specifically yet patients who are chronically...
Anorexic Woman Allowed to Starve Herself to Death
By Wesley J. Smith We have reached the point that indisputably mentally ill people are being allowed to commit suicide or to die from their terrible psychiatric afflictions. In Belgium, a chronic self-harmer was voluntarily euthanized and organ harvested. In...
Criticism of Belgium policy of euthanizing the mentally ill
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On October 19, the Washington Post published an article by columnist Charles Lane examining the recent report from Belgium's Federal Commission on the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia that...
Killing the Mentally Ill in Netherlands
By Wesley J. Smith The Netherlands considers itself oh, so rational. Its laws around controversial social issues involve the concept of harm reduction. Harm reduction? Once the country accepted killing as an answer to suffering, it was sure to include the mentally...
They Kill the Mentally Ill Don’t They?
By Wesley J. Smith Back in 2012, I warned that a Dutch psychiatric journal was urging its readers to increase their euthanasia kill rate of mentally ill patients. And so they have. Hard on the heels of Belgium legalizing child euthanasia, the Netherlander...