Canada's Wretched Descent Into Killing people With Disabilities

If you want to know how far the death grip has overtaken Canada, access this clip from Canadian TV - a mother who wants to euthanize her two grown children and the media rehabilitation of a child murderer who in killing his daughter was "compassionate." frightening. here

Bioethics Madness: Killing Isn't Too Bad, Really

Here’s what the sometimes loony bioethics folks come up with: Killing isn’t that much of a big deal.

The 'Thou Shalt Nots' Matter

An employee of the federal government, working in the Department of Bioethics in the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has proposed with a coauthor who is a professor at Duke University that killing itself is not wrong unless it causes the loss of abilities. more

An Antidote To Killing People With Locked-In Syndrome

Here, thank goodness, is the antidote to wanting people with locked-in syndrome dead.

No one has the right to switch off a human life... I should know: One woman's story of being locked inside her own

Can you imagine a lonelier or more frightening place to be trapped in, unable to communicate, than your own body?
These are terrifying times for anyone who cannot speak up for themselves. Whether they know it or not, they are lying prone in a world increasingly seduced by the idea that death is preferable to the life they are living.
The increasingly vocal advocates, who promote ‘assisted suicide’ for those who are too disabled to express their own feelings on the matter, cannot begin to imagine what it is like to live such a life. more

UK Doctor Advocates Killing Infants - Just because

Aren't we lucky!! A prominent UK doctor is calling for killing infants even if they have no "quality of life" issues. That is, the pro-deathers have now (predictably) moved from advocating killing infants with disabilities to just any old infant. I predict that very soon we'll see a renewed push for assisted suicide and euthanasia for any reason, anytime, by anyone, and for all stages of life.

Proposal to withhold care from sick babies is unethical, Vatican adviser says

A proposal to allow premature or sick newborn babies to die even when their life would be deemed worth living by medical staff has been condemned by a leading member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Doctor Carlo Bellieni says the suggestion being made by the Oxford-based physician James Wilkinson is both “flawed” and “an erroneous way of considering life.”

Dr. Wilkinson outlines his controversial argument in the American Journal of Bioethics. “The prevailing official view is that treatment may be withdrawn only if the burdens in an infant’s future life outweigh the benefits. ... I conclude that it is justifiable in some circumstances for parents and doctors to decide to allow an infant to die even though the infant’s life would be worth living,” Dr. Wilkinson wrote. more

Aussie: Killers Looking Forward To Getting Rid Of Relatives If Euthanasia Legalized

Yes folks, Aussie has yet to legalize euthanasia but already relatives are coming out of the woodwork saying they can't wait for the law to take effect so they can have their relatives killed. Aren't we lucky???

Endless sorrow of futile care giving

TWICE a week for five years, Brian Leigep has kept a vigil at the bedside of his brother Mark.

He clips Mark's nails, updates him on life outside a bed he will probably never leave and puts on some of his favourite hip-hop music.

Mark never responds. He has been unable to communicate since a 2006 car crash in Elizabeth left him in a vegetative state.

As Health Minister John Hill yesterday backed a new push to introduce euthanasia in South Australia, Mr Leigep renewed his family's call that Mark be legally euthanised. more

Beware Those Who Call Killers "Quirky"

Here's a bonehead who's either a serious pro-deather or just plain ol' ignorant. OK, he's a lawyer, so maybe both. Anyone who thinks Jack Kevorkian is "quirky" rather than the crazed murderer he is, is loopy. Going as far as saying that assisted killing is a "dignified" way to go for people with disabilities is simply hate speech, in my so very humble opinion.

Neil Shapiro: Right to die gives dignity to disabled

I recently watched an HBO movie about Jack Kevorkian, the quirky Michigan doctor who assisted numerous people suffering painful, debilitating and ultimately fatal diseases to commit suicide, to die when they wanted to and on their own terms.

Parenthetically, Al Pacino's portrayal of "Dr. Death" was brilliant. The production addressed the schism between those who believe that we should have control over our own deaths, and others who believe it a sin to interfere with some supreme being's grand plan for us. more

UCLA Shame: Calling Kevorkian a "Prominent Physician" - Sick, Very Sick

Even some of my colleagues take me to task from time to time for being alarmist – oh well. But here’s a perfect example of why I keep sounding the alarm, especially about how the pro-death sentiment is creeping into popular culture, thereby being increasingly seen as viable. Jack Kevorkian is not, by anyone’s stretch of the imagination (except for the spinmeister who write this) a “prominent physician.” He’s a murderer, a convicted felon, and outright creep (go back and look at the sick experiments he did as a young pathologist). This, of course, is His Deathness’ speaking tour to cash in on the HBO movie made about him, “You Don’t Know Jack.” Well, actually, I do, and so should you – know the Jack Kevorkian truth, that is.

An Evening with Dr. Jack Kevorkian at UCLA Saturday, January 15, 2011

Los Angeles, CA - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, one of America’s most prominent physicians, and widely considered a leading expert on Euthanasia, will be the guest of honor at a lecture at University of California, Los Angeles’s Royce Hall on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM. more

Murdering Patients Is OK As Long As "There's No Other Option" Really?

Under Swiss law, this doctor is a murderer. But wait!! She pleaded not guilty because she had “no other choice” but to kill her patient. See? Argue that you’re powerless (except for being able to kill) and hey, presto!! You’re off the hook!! I’ll bet nobody challenged the good doctor about her knowledge of palliative care and pain management.

Case puts assisted suicide at a crossroads

The acquittal of a doctor accused of euthanasia has rekindled the debate on assisted suicide in Switzerland, ahead of votes at the cantonal level on the issue.

A regional criminal court in Boudry, canton Neuchâtel, ruled in December that the doctor had no choice when she took the final step to end the life of a terminally ill patient. The acquittal was made definitive in a ruling issued on Tuesday.

Direct active euthanasia is illegal in Switzerland but assisted suicide and passive euthanasia (mercy killing) are not. more

The "Murder As Mercy" Excuse Is Getting A Little Old

This Taiwanese man stabbed his wife to death with a screwdriver. His defense? Mercy, of course!!

Taiwan man kills wife after posting intention on blog

TAIPEI: An elderly Taiwanese man allegedly put his ailing wife to death by pushing a screwdriver through her skull, weeks after he said on his blog he might kill her as an act of mercy, media reported on Monday. 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

Old-Fashioned Finns Still Think Killing Patients Is Murder

Methinks Finnish nurse Nykopp-Koski has gotten a bad rap. After all, she’s being punished for what they do all the time in the Netherlands and Belgium – killing patients who never asked to be killed.

Finnish nurse gets life for murdering five patients

Aino Nykopp-Koski, 60, killed the patients, aged between 70 and 91, with drugs they had not been prescribed, including sedatives and opiates.

The murders took place at various hospitals, care homes and patients' homes between 2004 and 2009, the Helsinki court heard.

Media reported that the court had not been able to determine any motive for the crimes. more

Ah, Yes, Helping Kill Someone Is "Merciful"

I was on this story Thursday (see below). OK, so her conviction was overturned but now she faces a new trial. Again, as I’ve said often, I don’t know why the legal eagles bother. You just know the pro-deathers are going to some out in force about what a “compassionate” soul she is. Spin Alert: Note the title of the piece – helping someone kill themselves is “mercy.” Uh-huh.

New trial granted for mercy killer Shirley Justins

A WOMAN who killed her partner of 18 years with a euthanasia drug had her manslaughter conviction quashed yesterday.

However, the Court of Criminal Appeal has ordered Shirley Justins to face a new trial.

In November, 2008, the then 60-year-old was convicted and sentenced to 22 months periodic detention after a jury found her guilty of the manslaughter of former Qantas pilot Graeme Wylie, 75.

He died from a lethal dose of the barbiturate Nembutal at his home in Cammeray in 2006. more

The Evil Of Making Murderers Merciful And Their Punishment Injustice

I’ve been around pro-deather lies long enough to not get too steamed by their duplicity, narcissism, macabre death wish, or their propaganda. However, some poor schmuck has written a very sympathetic book about the murderer Robert Larimer, a Canadian who gassed his severely cerebral palsied daughter claiming it was in  her best interest. Frighteningly, many in Canada agreed with him. And here’s a book that makes the Latimers out to be the victims. Justice? Mercy? The Latimers are still alive – Tracy was sniffed out like some throw-away piece of garbage. Excuse me while I leave this post to throw up.

A Story of Justice and Mercy

Robert Latimer is not here. The Saskatchewan farmer jailed by the Supreme Court of Canada for killing his severely disabled daughter is missing from Gary Bauslaugh's Robert Latimer: A Story of Justice and Mercy.

His wife, Laura, is invisible, too.

The facts of their horrible struggle are here, and there are quotes from him and her, culled from public sources. But the couple that captured a nation's emotional attention for so long is not to be found.

Latimer makes it clear he didn't want to share his soul with author Gary Bauslaugh, and who can blame him? And for her part, Laura has fiercely defended the family's privacy for nearly 20 years.

Theirs is a story we all want to hear, but their voices remain muted. more

Insulting Terri Schiavo - Even After All These years

Ah, the spin, the spin. The media are so in the pocket of the pro-deathers!! This headline implies that the legalistas at this event were from Terri's side, because when you say “Schiavo” that’s immediately who we all think of. Au contraire, mon amis. All the schlubs at this event were those hell-bent on killing her, including the black-robed executioner himself, Judge Greer. Disgusting.

Schiavo Legal Team Discusses Thoughts on Value of Life

Members of the legal team who worked on the historic case involving Terri Schiavo — the deceased Florida woman whose husband’s decision to cut her off from life-sustaining medical equipment sparked a debate about the rights of those in permanent vegetative states — gathered at the Emory University School of Law on Oct. 15 for a panel which rehashed many of the issues that divided much of the country and Congress in the spring of 2005. more

Killing Is As Killing Does

I noted yesterday that this soldier who killed a suffering civilian is up on murder charges, and wondered why, seeing as he was putting the woman out of her misery - just like the rest of euthanasia does. Guess what? Said soldier is calling for the legalization of euthanasia. Killing is as killing does . . .

Plea of war doctor who shot dying woman

AN ADELAIDE surgeon who shot dead a young mother at the site of a massacre to save her hours of agony has called for euthanasia to be legalised in Australia. more

Hollywood Endorses Killing - What A Shock!!

Well, this is how things go. A murderer garners sympathy for being a “hero.” Major Hollywood star plays him in a TV miniseries. Actor wins acting award for his sympathetic portrayal of Jack Kevorkian. Ergo, helping people kill themselves is a legit social behavior.

Hollywood veteran Al Pacino bagged the outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or movie award at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards. Directed by Barry Levinson, the miniseries is about the life and work of physician-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, which is played by Pacino. more

Killing A Patient In Canada

For those who thought that Terri Schiavo being starved and dehydrated to death was some kind of sick anomaly (it’s not) here’s the latest case: A Canadian man who is not otherwise dying is being starved and dehydrated to death – in a hospital, no less. The pro-deathers are everywhere, including hospitals and hospices. From my good friend and colleague Alex Schadenberg: 

First: Joshua (48), who is not otherwise dying, is being dehydrated to death (euthanasia by omission). This is not a case when hydration and nutrition need to be withdrawn because he is actually dying and nearing death, but rather the decision appears to have been made to intentionally cause his death by withdrawing IV hydration and nutrition because he is unlikely to recover from his disability. . . .

Second: It is deplorable that the Consent and Capacity Board in Ontario, the hospital and the lawyer for the hospital, who are all paid by the government and have nearly unlimited resources to pressure people to consent to their will, appeared to appoint a Substitute Decision Maker (SDM) to make decisions on behalf of Joshua, based on that person’s willingness to agree to a non-treatment plan, even though there is no proof that the plan of non-treatment represented the values of the person. more

UK's Latest Killer Doctor The Next Harold Shipman - I Agree

Here’s more on the UK Brit doctor, Howard Martin. The piece argues that Martin is no different than the UK’s most infamous doctor-killer, Dr. Harold Shipman, who probably killed hundreds. I agree wholeheartedly.

Death doctor Howard Martin and Dignity in Dying have more in common with

Dr Howard Martin, struck off by the General Medical Council last week and facing a second criminal investigation into the deaths of several of his patients, is anxious to distance himself from mass-murderer Harold Shipman. Dr Shipman, he says, was “a psychopath”, while Dr Martin claims he was acting out of “Christian compassion”. I’m not sure how Dr Martin can invoke Christianity here, since the gospel enjoins us to visit the sick and comfort the dying, not to kill them, but there we are.

And the GMC described Dr Martin, who has openly boasted of ending the lives of several of his patients, as “egregious, despicable and dangerous”, which are adjectives that could be applied to the late Dr Shipman, even if there are other, worse ones to describe him too. Furthermore, what Dr Martin and Dr Shipman appear to have in common is as follows: They both believed they had an infallible responsibility for deciding when a patient should die (interestingly, Dr Martin claims to have done this with the dying patients’ relatives, which is supposed to make it right); they both appeared to believe that it was in some way ethical for a doctor to kill his patients, or “help them to die” are the weasel-words that euthanasia lobbyists use; they both appear to have believed that some lives, usually those of the terminally ill, are not worth living, which is an unusual judgment for a doctor to make, to say the least. And both of them seem to have had no problem with their conscience while playing God. more

So, As Long As Involuntary Euthanasia Is Not Increasing, Let's All Celebrate!!

See also the post below this one. Here’s the pro-death spin about the CMAJ article saying that people are being euthanized without asking for it in Belgium. Ah, I see, it’s still happening, but let’s all rejoice because it’s not getting more widespread. Pure evil, folks, pure evil.

Euthanasia And The Use Of End-of-life Drugs Without Explicit Request

Despite fears to the contrary, the use of drugs to end life without patient request has not increased since euthanasia was legalized in Belgium, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). more

Gee, I Thought That You Were Supposed To Euthanize People ONLY When They Wanted It

Hot off the presses of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, confirmation of what many of us have known all along – they’re euthanizing people (in this case in Belgium) who never asked for it, never wanted it, and never saw it coming. So much for making sure this didn’t happen by legalizing euthanasia.

Physician-assisted deaths under the euthanasia law in Belgium: a population-based survey

. . . Use of life-ending drugs without an explicit request mostly involved patients 80 years of older, those with a disease other than cancer and those in hospital. Of the deaths without an explicit request, the decision was not discussed with the patient in 77.9% of cases. more