Christian Post Guest ColumnistChristian PostWest is publicizing how he helped kill his parents to promote assisted suicide, which he wants to see legalized. But as West’s story itself shows, our culture and our legal system have already begun to acquiesce to murder, to the point where more and …
Allowing people to arrange their death is a simple act of kindnessTimes Online, UKA large majority thinks that assisted suicide is acceptable. It is also a right. Legalising it would be a humane thing to do Controversy always follows those who suggest that terminally ill or incurably suffering people should be allowed to ask for and [...]
Life, death and the contentious limits of lawThe Age, AustraliaNo one can say that she was encouraged to make her decision while in a vulnerable mental state; but her story certainly raises the question of what might happen if assisted suicide were legal and unscrupulous relatives — or even medical and nursing …
The push for euthanasia could be the death of us allThe Gazette (Montreal), CanadaHow far dow we want laws to go on 'death with dignity' and assisted suicide? Imagine carrying around with you at all times a sort of get-out-of-hospital-alive card, sometimes called a sanctuary card. Its message: I do not want to be killed even [...]
Live and let die?Sunday Paper, GAIn Georgia, four members of FEN face charges of performing assisted suicide, racketeering and tampering with evidence. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, a law allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill …
My father deserved a better way to dieguardian.co.uk, UKThe other solution is to end the need for this gruesome form of death tourism by decriminalising assisted suicide in this country. This, as Patricia Hewitt has acknowledged, must be a decision for parliament: not the judges and not the DPP. …
'Dr Death' sells euthanasia kits in UK for £35guardian.co.uk, UKTesting kits that allow people to check the strength of drugs they have bought in order to commit suicide are to be sold in the UK by one of the world's leading advocates of euthanasia. Dr Philip Nitschke, an Australian physician known as Dr Death for …
Times Online John Humphrys: 'assisted suicide should be legalised'Times Online, UKSimilarly in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, “they give them the prescription and most people don’t even go and get that prescription filled, but they’ve got it there – and, God knows, I’d want that”. Really? “If someone told me tomorrow, …
Times Online John Humphrys: "assisted suicide should be legalised"Times Online, UKSimilarly in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, “they give them the prescription and most people don’t even go and get that prescription filled, but they’ve got it there – and, God knows, I’d want that”. Really? “If someone told me tomorrow, …
Times Online News Review interview: John HumphrysTimes Online, UKSimilarly in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, “they give them the prescription and most people don’t even go and get that prescription filled, but they’ve got it there – and, God knows, I’d want that”. Really? “If someone told me tomorrow, …