NZ Convict Gets A Hero's Welcome - Ugh

Oh please, gag me . . . Sean Davison, the New Zealander who helped kill his mother and was convicted for the act, is back in his resident South Africa – to a hero’s welcome. What does that say about the South African mindset? (Clue: Its not good).

University gives euthanasia campaigner warm welcome

MUCH loved, well respected and sorely missed.

That’s the picture painted by students of Sean Davison, the head of the University of the Western Cape’s DNA forensics laboratory, who helped his terminally ill mother die.

Davison returned home a week ago after serving five months’ home detention in his native New Zealand. Yesterday, on his first day back at work, UWC welcomed him with open arms.

Immediately after entering the Life Sciences building it became clear how well regarded Davison was, as he was greeted with warm words, hugs and enquiries about his well-being. more

NZ Pro-Deather Returns To South Africa

Here’s more on New Zealander Sean Davison arriving back in South Africa after getting slapped on the wrist  for assisting in his mother’s suicide. Predictably, he’s now becoming a pro-death activist. Gee, shocked, I am!!

‘Mercy’ son to fight on in SA

Today is my first real day of freedom, said Sean Davison as he held his son Flynn at Cape Town International Airport.

The UWC professor, home after five months’ house arrest in New Zealand for helping his terminally ill mother to die, says he will now focus on changing the law on assisted suicide. more

Organ Black Market Alive & Well In North Africa

This is disturbing but unsurprising. The donor black market is engaging in horrific organ harvesting in Africa.

Organs Taken from African Refugees - While They are Still Alive!

Catholic Online has previously reported on the plight of African refugees who brave burning desert sands in search of a better life in Israel. Many of these refugees are captured by Bedouin tribes who then torture, enslave and sexually assault them in extortion plots. More horrifically, these smugglers are now harvesting body parts from these refugees - while they are still alive - to feed the international black market. more

The Pro-Deathers Come To South Africa

Well, this is not unexpected - the pro-deathers are now gearing up in South Africa.

Eyewitness News: Euthanasia rife in SA

The Executive Director of the Ethics Institute of South Africa on Thursday says assisted dying happens around the country, but is simply being swept under the carpet. more

The Pro-Deathers Come To South Africa

The pro-deathers are starting to gain a foothold in my country of birth, South Africa. Predictably, a pro-death organization has been started by a New Zealander who lives in South Africa and who's under indictment for assisting in the sucide of his mother in his native NZ. Simple, see? Killers become advocates for . . . well, killing. Aren't we all so lucky??

Pro-euthanasia Dignity SA challenges existing law

After he was released on bail and returned to South Africa in September, Sean Davison, who is to stand trial in New Zealand next month for the attempted murder of his mother, has launched Dignity South Africa - an organisation aiming to campaign for the legalisation of euthanasia in South Africa. more

Now A Pro-Death Poster Boy From South Africa

So it goes: Son, respected South African professor, travels to New Zealand to help his mom kick the bucket. Gets nabbed by Kiwi authorities. No he’s the subject of a South Africa documentary on assisted sucide. Wanna bet that the conclusion will be pro-death?

TV tackles controversial mercy killing

TOMORROW night Special Assignment tackles the controversial issue of euthanasia.

Called A Time to Die, the show will be broadcast at 8.30pm on SABC3.

Euthanasia or mercy killing is an issue that most people do not feel comfortable to talk about. more

Helping Someone Kill Themselves OK As Long As You're "Passionate" About It?

You remember South African Sean Davidson, don’t you? He of flying from South Africa to New Zealand to help his mother kill herself. Predictably, he’s now a hero, and he’s not letting up. I suggest that we’re in deep trouble when someone who helps kill somebody else spins it as “passion.” Heaven help us all.

Mixed views over 'mercy' killing prof

THERE has been mixed public reactions to whether University of Western Cape professor Sean Davison, who is facing trial in New Zealand for the assisted suicide of his mother, had committed an act of mercy or murder.

Davison is adamant that if he committed a crime it was one of passion.

"If I'm perceived to have committed a crime, it would be a crime of passion. I have made many mistakes in my life, I have many people that I need to apologise to, but helping my mother end her (suffering) was not one of those mistakes," Davison is reported to have said. more

The New Norm: Help People Kill Themselves, Become An Heroic "Expert"

What do you do for an encore after flying halfway across the world to help your mother kill herself? Why, masquerade as a reformer and visionary, not an aider and abettor to murder. Sick, really sick.

Assisted death advocate keen to start South African group

The man charged with the attempted murder of his terminally ill mother has joined a group that promotes assisted death and wants to start his own group in South Africa.

Sean Davison might also tour his adoptive country with a high-profile New Zealand euthanasia campaigner before he faces trial in the High Court in Dunedin. more

When Murderers Brazenly Annonce Killing As Love

Yawn . . . Another killer bravely calls what he did mercy, and announces that he’s going to campaign for euthanasia. Notice the spin in the articles header - it's not murder, you see, it's "helping people die." These people certainly take the cake when it comes to being brazen liars and propagandists.

Professor who helped mom die arrives back in SA

The academic arrested after helping his terminally ill mother to die in New Zealand has arrived back in South Africa.

Addressing a media briefing in Cape Town on Wednesday, Professor Sean Davison announced he would campaign for a change to local law to permit voluntary euthanasia.

"I hope by doing this I can help bring about some good from my unfortunate situation," he said. more

South African Press In The Tank For Euthanasia

I’m ashamed to say that the country of my birth, South Africa, is drinking the pro-death Kool Aid. Truth is, Sean Davidson flew to New Zealand from South Africa to euthanize his mother. He succeeded, but it’s a crime in NZ, so he’s in jail awaiting trial. But the opening of this story is how awful it is that he missed the birth of his new son. Duh – if you’re so boneheaded as to commit a crime in a foreign country, then perhaps you should have considered that you might, just might, get arrested.

Mercy killing: A wife's anguish

Sean Davison never got to hear the first words uttered by his baby son. The South African professor being held in New Zealand over the death of his cancer-stricken mother from a morphine overdose has not seen his family in Cape Town for over two months. more

Ho-Hum: Killing For Love. What Else Is New???

See, you’re a college professor, so you are smart, and you know things the rest of us don’t – like the fact that killing is OK just because people ask you to. What arrogance. What evil masquerading as good. I hope he’s convicted of murder and they throw the book at him.

SA prof arrested for mom's mercy killing

Professor Sean Davison, 48, the head of the department of biotechnology's forensics laboratory at the University of the Western Cape, came to the attention of the New Zealand police after publishing a book about the death of his mother. more