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By Wesley J. Smith When Dame Cecily Saunders created the modern hospice movement, she adamantly rejected assisted suicide as an acceptable hospice activity. Indeed, when I interviewed Saunders for the original edition of my book Culture of Death, she stated...
RE: Palliative Care and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) May 2019 Editor’s note. The following was recently published by the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians (CSPCP). The CSPCP supports conscience rights for physicians, they believe that (MAiD)...
Increasingly aggressive euthanasia activists are attempting to rewrite the meaning of palliative care across Canada. Editor’s note. This article was published by Huffington Post on January 29, 2018 and reposted on the blog of Alex Schadenberg. By Dr. Will Johnston, a...
A palliative care physician says that very, very few people ever ask for euthanasia By Dr. Ghauri Aggarwal Editor’s note. Cachexia refers to “general physical wasting and malnutrition usually associated with chronic disease.” We are lucky to live in the 21st Century....
By Michael Cook Is the developed world prepared for the avalanche of elderly people who will die of cancer and dementia? A report in the journal BMC Medicine says No. About 75% of people approaching the end of their lives would benefit from palliative care services....
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition This week the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published a study by Aaron J. Trachtenberg, MD DPhil, and Braden Manns, MD MSc., titled “Cost analysis of medical assistance in dying.”...
By Dave Andrusko A seriously ill baby girl has died after a judge in Nottingham, England authorized the hospital to “move the baby to a palliative care regime,” the Nottingham Post has reported. Justice Keehan of London’s High Court overruled the objections of the...
By Wesley J. Smith There is a fight in the UK about whether to keep a seriously ill baby on life support or put her in palliative care to die. Typically of our age, the idea that a person has a life not worth living may really be about discrimination against the...
By Paul Russell Two memes dominate the pro-euthanasia rhetoric--choice and pain. Yet in a significant number of media stories featuring people who want access to euthanasia and assisted suicide we see that it is not pain that is the dominant driving factor; it is fear...
Another one-sided report on euthanasia, this time in the Australian state of Victoria By Paul Russell The Legal and Social Issues Committee of the Victorian Parliament handed down its long-awaited Report into End-of-Life Choices today. It makes some valuable comments...