Terminally ill cancer sufferer Brittany Maynard dies at home
29-year-old brain cancer sufferer Brittany Maynard has died at home using drugs made available via Oregon's Death With Dignity Act. Photo: AFP Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill American woman who...
View ArticleKafer: Should Colorado permit physician-assisted suicide? No
Allowing suicide is a slippery slope Brittany Maynard, left, hugs her mother Debbie Ziegler next to a helicopter at the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona on Oct. 21. Maynard ended her life on Nov....
View Article/R E P E A T -- Life not death: Why euthanasia and assisted suicide ...
MONTREAL, Nov. 20, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - On November 6, 2014, an educational dinner conference entitled "Life is Beautiful" was sponsored by the Coalition of Physicians for Social Justice. Several...
View ArticleAnger over Key's euthanasia comments
Medical specialists who care for the terminally ill are angered by Prime Minister John Key's comments that euthanasia already effectively happens in hospitals regularly. Mr Key made the comment on...
View Article‘Forcing ventilator on dying is assault’
Taking the right call on an end-of-life decision is vital to provide relief to terminally-ill patients with no hope of recovery so that scarce resources are diverted to those who can be saved, says...
View ArticlePM's 'misguided' euthanasia views anger palliative care specialists
Medical specialists who care for the terminally ill are angered by Prime Minister John Key's comments that euthanasia already effectively happens in hospitals regularly. Mr Key made the comment on...
View ArticleGood Death vs. Doctor Knows Best
Barbara Coombs Lee, the sharp and articulate president of Compassion & Choices, spoke to the issue of death with dignity on PBS NewsHour October 14, with opposing views presented by Ira Byock,...
View ArticleAppeals court rules on state doctors' obligations
The government has no constitutional obligation to provide health care to patients in state doctors' care, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. Disability Rights Wisconsin filed a lawsuit in May 2009...
View ArticleProxy euthanasia common in India
NEW DELHI: Law or no law, euthanasia in a surrogate form is practised in India. Instances of doctors scaling down medical intervention where patients have no chance of recovery aren't unheard of. Such...
View ArticleBelgium on track to allow child euthanasia
Jutte van der Werff Ten Bosch has already had the talk with her 10-year-old son. Several times, in fact. No, not the sex talk. The euthanasia talk. ''Even if he said, 'I want to die', I'd support...
View ArticleQuebec Euthanasia Bill Violates International Law - Remedial action requested...
Download image 16 year old Nadine is happy to be alive after surviving leukemia and a bone marrow transplant. She is grateful for the love and support of her mother Claude. Both oppose Quebec's...
View ArticleQuebec Euthanasia Bill Violates International Law - Remedial action requested...
MONTREAL, Feb. 17, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Quebec's proposed law on euthanasia will allow a lethal substance to be injected into an adult person at "the end of life" (which is not defined in the proposed...
View ArticleFrance wants to legalize terminal sedation
Published December 15, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 Email Print Senior woman visiting with her doctor or caregiver (iStock) PARIS – France's president wants to allow doctors to keep...
View Article/R E P E A T -- Quebec Euthanasia Bill Violates International Law - Remedial ...
MONTREAL, Feb. 17, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Quebec's proposed law on euthanasia will allow a lethal substance to be injected into an adult person at "the end of life" (which is not defined in the proposed...
View ArticleQuebec doctors unite against medical aid in dying
A growing group of doctors are speaking out against medical aid in dying, as Quebec moves forward with the process of drafting its controversial "dying with dignity" legislation. The man known as the...
View ArticleQuebec doctors unite agaist medical aid in dying
A growing group of doctors are speaking out against medical aid in dying, as Quebec moves forward with the process of drafting its controversial "dying with dignity" legislation. The man known as the...
View ArticleFroma Harrop commentary: Death With Dignity laws help to make the slope less...
The story of Brittany Maynard has revived the debate over Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. The law lets terminally ill patients end their lives with the aid of a doctor. That Maynard is a pretty...
View ArticleWhat is euthanasia? Is it the same as physician-assisted suicide?
What is euthanasia? In humans euthanasia is the induction of death in a person who has a terminal illness. This act is also known as a mercy killing because it is assumed to be committed as an act of...
View ArticleCourt in France says end life support for tetraplegic
France's highest court, the Council of State, has ruled in favour of ending life support for a man who has remained in a vegetative state for six years. Vincent Lambert, 39, was left a tetraplegic...
View ArticleTo End Our Days (The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
(Source: The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life) In recent years, questions concerning the end of life have become the subject of intense public debate and disagreement. Legislatures and courts,...
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