When the splash of assisted-suicide and euthanasia blinds us to their far-reaching ripples. By Margaret Somerville 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...

By Margaret Somerville Advocates of legalizing euthanasia reject “slippery slope” arguments as unfounded fear-mongering and claim that its use will always be restricted to rare cases of dying people with unrelievable, unbearable suffering. But, as the Netherlands and...

One way to get rid of slippery slopes is to deny that they exist By Margaret Somerville For a long time, it’s puzzled me how proponents of the legalization of euthanasia can confidently claim, as they do, that in the Netherlands and Belgium, the two jurisdictions with...

By Dave Andrusko There are any number of components to the deaths of identical twins in Belgium--euthanized reportedly at their own request--that are puzzling, tragic, and deeply disturbing. Here are just five. As you recall, the unnamed 45-year-old brothers were born...