Chilling admissions from doctors describing assisted suicide as their ‘best work’ shows the decline in recognition of the dignity of human life in Canada’s medical profession.
Despite promises of strict protections, Kim Leadbeater’s committee is rejecting key amendments to prevent coercion, protect disabled people, and ensure medical assessments in the U.K.’s assisted suicide bill.
71-year-old Fred Sandeski, who suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among other things, says he was offered euthanasia when facing increased care costs at a hospice center.
St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver is facing a lawsuit from the family of a now-deceased 34-year-old woman after the institution, in accordance with Catholic teaching, refused her request for euthanasia.
Euthanasia based on poverty or disability is rarely based on personal choice and autonomy, it is horrifying, it is profane, it is the outcome of a failed social welfare system, and it is indefensible.