Don't Let Pro-Deathers Hide Behind Their Victimhood

Here’s a very interesting piece that looks at an aspect I have long recognized – that pro-death poster people avoid tough questions by hiding behind their victimhood.

Stephen Hawking And Assisted Suicide

Today is the ancient feast-day of Epiphany - marking the moment Christians believe the Magi, the Three Wise Men, came face to face with the infant Christ.
In the secular world, to have an epiphany has assumed a new meaning. An epiphany is a sudden moment of realisation; of the scales falling; a new way of looking at something.

My epiphanies are low-rent affairs, confined to the the twilight world of the news presenter on a 24-hour news channel.

Yesterday's epiphany came during a debate about assisted suicide. I was interviewing the friend of a woman who had taken her own life at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich. more

Ersatz Canadian Victimhood About Aiding In A Suicide

If you read this bog regularly, you'll know that Canada is embroiled in all kinds of debates about legalizing assisted suicide - currently it's still a crime. So, as expected, here come the "poor victims" who have gone with a loved on to Switzerland for assisted killing and then are worried on their return that they might be charged. Really? The Canadian authorities have consistently indicated that they will turn a blind eye, just as they do in the UK. So why the media coverage about their fears of prosecution? Why, to make the claim for victimhood, of course, in the hopes that it will sway people to call for decriminalizing assisted suicide in Canada.

Assisted suicide abroad puts families in legal limbo

Family and friends who travel to Switzerland to be with their loved ones as they commit assisted suicide enter legal limbo when they return home -- they may have committed a crime, but have no way of knowing if the police will come calling.

British Columbians Lee Carter and Hollis Johnson filed suit against the federal government this week for legal changes that would allow doctor-assisted suicide for people suffering from incurable diseases. As it stands, helping anyone commit suicide is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison. more