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By Michael Cook A quadriplegic Quebec man has chosen assisted dying because of a bedsore he acquired when a hospital failed to give him a special pressure mattress. In January Normand Meunier went to the emergency section of a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, for a...
A quadriplegic man, Normand Meunier (66), “chose” to die by (MAiD) after developing a severe bedsore at a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Québec.
By Wesley J. Smith A little good news: Legalizing euthanasia for the mentally ill in Canada has been pushed back again, not because authorities think it is ethically twisted, profoundly negligent, and morally wrong — all of which are true — but because there are...
By Wesley J. Smith The pattern never changes. Euthanasia is legalized under the promise of “strict guidelines” preventing abuse. As time goes on, the strict guidelines are loosened, and then loosened again. Sometimes the process is slow and sometimes fast. But the...
By Wesley J. Smith Euthanasia advocates are so full of it, promising that snuff medicine will only be a last resort when nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering. It’s never been true, to the point that no law in the world requires that everything — or indeed,...
The Canadian province is accelerating past Belgium By Aubert Martin The law that legalized euthanasia in Quebec – under the euphemism “medical aid in dying” – came into effect exactly two years ago, on December 10, 2015. Many promises preceded its intrusion into our...
By Wesley J. SMITH Euthanasia costs lives. Not only do doctors kill people who ask to die–generally without even attempting suicide prevention services–but the ethics-altering values of euthanasia/assisted suicide devalue despairing lives generally. For example,...
By Michael Cook Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through August 25. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last ten months....
From “exceptional cases” to “a response to a need” By Aubert Martin A month after the publication of a letter by the secretary of the College of Physicians of Quebec – in which he expressed his concern about a growing “pressure, demanding a form of death à la carte”...
By Dave Andrusko If there is (and there is) a seamless garment of death, one of the principal knitters is Gaetan Barrette, Quebec’s Health Minister. NRL News Today readers probably recall his role in actively promoting assisted suicide and taking aim at conscience...