Obvious: People Who Suffer More Likely To Kill Themselves

Here's a study that concludes the bleeding obvious: People with severe medical and other disabilities are more likely to kill themselves. That's because these poor people don’t see any alternative to suffering - can we say better medical, psychological, and social care, people?

New study reveals link between suicide and chronic and terminal illness

The suffering of people whose chronic and terminal illnesses is so severe that they take their own lives has been laid bare in a new report which found that they account for almost one in 10 suicide cases seen by Norfolk’s coroner. more

Belgium: Medicalized Killings Increase Substantially

If you legalize it, they will die. Euthanasia is increasing exponentially in Belgium. I wish I could say I'm shocked . . .

Rise in assisted deaths

"Growing trend for euthanasia," headlines the front page of Le Soir. "Since 2002, and the implementation of a law that partially depenalises the practice, there have never been more cases of euthanasia," explains the Belgian daily, which reports on the latest figures from the federal monitoring agency. more

Dutch Teacup Storm: Priest Refuses To Bury Euthanized Man

Here's much ado about nothing. A Dutch priest refuses funeral mass to a euthanized man. This is the policy of the Roman Catholic Church and the priest is merely abiding by the rules of his church. Media is trying to spin it as somehow more than a tangential part of the assisted sucide/euthanasia debate.

Dutch priest refuses euthanasia

The small Dutch town of Liempde is at the centre of an outcry after a Catholic priest refused to say a funeral mass for a man who had opted for euthanasia. more

UK: Some Coroners Ignore Assisted Suicides

Hardly surprising. By law doctors are supposed to report when a death is by assisted suicide, but it seems that if it's a suicide due to some disabling condition, at least some coroners turn a blind eye.

Coroners turn blind eye to assisted suicides, report claims

CORONERS turn a blind eye to assisted suicides – with “devastating” consequences, a study claimed yesterday. more

US Pro-Deathers Think Up Novel Ways To Advance Killing

US pro-deathers continue to find novel ways to kill people. Now they're calling for people to refuse food and water as a way of dying.

US assisted suicide group opens campaign for voluntary starvation

Campaigners for voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide seem to be trying to make them more acceptable by blurring the moral boundaries. In the Netherland, terminal sedation – death by starvation under heavy sedation – is an increasingly popular with doctors. Now Compassion & Choices, an American lobby group, has launched a public relations campaign for VSED, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. more

More UK Pro-Death Poster People

Here's another poster-person case for assisted sucide. All these stories eventually shape public opinion to believe that if you’re/sick/despondent/old/disabled you should kill yourself or have someone to do it to you.

Assisted suicide could be 'legalised' in groundbreaking case

A 46-year-old-man who wants to die after a stroke that left him almost completely paralysed is bringing a groundbreaking legal action that could effectively lead to the legalisation of assisted suicide in the UK. more

Assisting In A Suicide Punished In China

This is a rare report from China, where a man assisting in a suicide is jailed. Of curse, we only have his word that his intentions were honorable - his friend is dead, so we'll never know if there were other reasons for this death.

Farmer jailed for assisting suicide triggers controversy

Zhong Yichun, an elderly farmer from east China's Jiangxi Province, never expected that helping his friend Zeng Qingxiang to commit suicide would bring him a two-year prison sentence.
Zhong buried Zeng last October as part of an agreement they made regarding Zeng's suicide. Zeng overdosed on sleeping pills and laid in a hole in the ground; Zhong called out to him 15 minutes later to ensure that he was dead before burying him.
A police investigation showed that Zeng suffered from a mental illness and had begged Zhong to help him commit suicide several times. more

French Death Doctor Receives Support

The French doctor who is now admitting to killing his patients (see below) is receiving quite a bit of support. Are we headed toward a new overall role for all doctors - to kill their patients?

Deaths reignite euthanasia debate

THE DEBATE on euthanasia in France has been reignited after a hospital doctor was charged with helping four elderly patients die. more

French Doctor Admits To Killing Patients

This is how it goes - now doctors are beginning to come out of the woodwork expressing pride for killing their patients, in this case in France.

Doctor ‘does not regret actions’

Paris - A French emergency doctor has admitted to killing elderly sick patients with lethal injections, in apparent cases of euthanasia, French media reported Saturday. more

Canada Safe From Legalized Killing - For Now

Canada is hopefully safe for now given the defeat of an assisted suicide bill last year. Remember, however, that the pro-deathers will be back as soon as they can.

Euthanasia issue won't be reopened, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says

Federal Justice Minister comments on case of B.C. woman seeking right to commit suicide

Canada's Justice Minister says the Conservative government won't be revisiting the question of assisted suicide despite a B.C. Supreme Court ruling to expedite a case on the matter. more

Pro-Deathers Take Aim At Massachusetts

Remember, the pro-deathers never give up. They're now banging the drum to legaize assisted suicide in Massachusetts.

Drive begins to put assisted suicide law on ballot next year

Voters may be asked to determine the fate of a proposal permitting dying patients to take life- ending drugs, a wrenching issue that backers say is a matter of dignity for the terminally ill but that opponents have warned is fraught with the potential for error.

Backers of assisted suicide for certain terminally ill patients filed paperwork yesterday with Attorney General Martha Coakley to begin the process of bringing their plan, dubbed the Death With Dignity Act, to the 2012 ballot. more

Aussie Dr. Death Pushes The Envelope - Again

Aussie Dr. Death Philip Nitschke is pushing the envelope again - trying to find ways to legally import Nembutal for assisted killing into Australia.

Nitschke announces to the media his latest scheme to help more Australians kill themselves

. . . Don Flounders, 81, suffered from mesothelioma, which is an incurable form of lung cancer and his 88-year-old wife Iris, who was not suffering from a terminal illness, had decided she did not want to live without him.

The couple made no secret of their intention to die together and travelled to Mexico in 2008 to buy the veterinary drug Nembutal which they claimed they needed for a ‘controlled death’.

The couple killed themselves after receiving advice from Philip Nitschke, a dangerous self-publicist and extremist who is well known for promoting suicide amongst elderly people.
Nitschke is now claiming that he has found a legal loophole, to import nembutal into Australia where is planning to help six other people to kill themselves.

He claims to have discovered that it can be imported legally, if a doctor applies to the Therapeutic Goods Administration with an acceptable medical reason.
‘I’ll be quite open about what I’m doing. There is provision in the legislation for this import process,’ Nitschke said. more

2/3 Of Dutch Doctors Support Euthanasia?

OK, so it looks like about one third of doctors in the Netherlands have refused to carry out euthanasia. You know what that means: two thirds are happy to kill. Frightening.

One third of doctors have refused a euthanasia request

One third of doctors have refused to carry out a euthanasia request over the past five years, according to a survey of 800 family doctors for television programme EénVandaag. more

Services For The Disabled: Yes. Assisted Suicide: Nope

Here's a good example of why services to severely disabled people should be the focus, and not about killing them off. This woman changed her mind about killing herself when she was offered appropriate therapy, which, as the story points out, is now about to be ended.

Shropshire woman 'shattered' as therapy sessions ended

A Shropshire woman who has multiple sclerosis has said group therapy sessions at a Shrewsbury hospital gave her a lifeline.
Jude Welsby was shocked when they came to an end abruptly in February 2010 after two therapists left.
She attended a meeting of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust Health Communities scrutiny meeting this week.
She wanted to know why there had been no provision for her continued therapy. 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

Assisted Suicide Infiltrates The Arts

So it goes - assisted suicide is now making it to the mainstream arts scene. Of course, these shows are almost all pro-death, as is the case here

True-life assisted suicide tale at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011

Having earned her third major Fringe award for last year’s forensic, verbatim one-man show Lockerbie: Unfinished Business, director Hannah Eidinow moves one step closer to her subject matter here. With An Instinct For Kindness, solo performer Chris Larner tells first-hand of accompanying his ex-wife Allyson to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland to undergo an assisted suicide. more

No Longer Calling For Assisted Suicide - Now For "Merciful" Murder

People who think that assisted suicide/euthanasia for anyone is not a slippery slope should read this - a wife insisting she be allowed to kill her husband who has locked-in syndrome. Yes, assisted suicide is not an option (husband can't take poison offered to him by another) and the wife is giving short shrift to euthanasia, which essentially would be killing the husband by a doctor. Solution? Why murder, of course.

Stroke victim pleads for death sentence

. . . Today, Tony and Jane Nicklinson will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. Not that Tony has remembered. "Typical bloke," Jane says, leaning over him. She could forgive him, though. The date now has a competing significance. It is also the day, last year, when Jane began her fight for the legal right to kill him. more

Czech Law To Provide For Advance Directives

Good for the Czechs, who are legislating what amounts to advance directives as a way of guarding against euthanasia.

Legislation to include euthanasia safeguard

A safeguard against euthanasia will be for the first time embedded in Czech legislation, in a reform bill on health services that the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of parliament, approved in the first reading yesterday, deputy health minister Martin Plisek has told CTK.

Though euthanasia is banned by the international convention on human rights and biomedicine that is binding on the Czech Republic as well, it has not yet been mentioned in the national legislation directly. more

MPs Continue To Hammer Pro-Death BBC

Brit MPs continue to hammer the BBC over its pro-death bias. Good for them - it's clear and has been for a while that the BBC pretty much sits in the pro-deather corner.

MP joins debate over euthanasia

NORTH Tyneside MP Mary Glindon is backing calls for the BBC to rethink its coverage of the ongoing debate over euthanasia.

Mrs Glindon has backed an early-day motion in the House of Commons calling on the broadcaster to ensure it remains impartial on the subject and has also added her signature to a letter to TV chiefs making the same point.

The former North Tyneside councillor said: “The BBC should be completely neutral on controversial issues such as euthanasia. more

Italian Lower House Intervenes In Euthanasia Debate

Good for the Italian politicos - starvation and dehydration are NOT medical treatments and should not be used to kill people.

Italian lower house votes to ban euthanasia

The lower house of Italy’s parliament has voted to prohibit the starvation and dehydration of patients in a move that is seen as a response to the killing of Eluana Englaro in 2009. more

Legal Euthanasia Is Out Of Control

Here's the ugly truth, folks - euthanasia is out of control in countries and states where it's legal. Duh.

The tragic reality of euthanasia

Over the past few months, a Quebec government commission has been studying euthanasia and assisted suicide. At the end of June, its members flew to Europe to examine the issue in countries where the practices are legal (such as the Netherlands and Belgium) and in a country that rejected legalized euthanasia (France).

What is the commission likely to hear? Proponents of euthanasia will undoubtedly stress that the practice is conducted only within tight guidelines. As a recent study by a Canadian doctor shows, however, these guidelines keep shifting and are of little value in protecting the rights of patients. In fact, according to an article published in Current Oncology by Dr. José Pereira, medical chief of palliative care at Bruyère Continuing Care in Ottawa, safeguards are routinely ignored and abused. more

Increasingly Disability = Death

Yes, here's the ugly truth - disability will get you killed in many areas of today’s society. This report shows that children in the UK are now being aborted for having even minor "defects." Simply depraved, no question.

Aborting abnormality

In a multi-ethnic society, we must be exposed to diversity in order to accept it without fear or hostility. No matter how friendly or open- minded we may be, awareness and exposure are the only way to make something 'new' and 'different' become normal and even mundane. more

Brit Legal System Now Aiding & Abetting Assisted Suicide

If there are still people who think the Brits will prosecute for assisting in a suicide, think again. After considerable pro-deather pressure, the government issued assisted sucide "guidelines" last year that essentially gutted any laws against someone helping to kill another.

No charges over Robert Cowie's Dignitas death

A Glasgow woman who took her paralysed son to the Swiss Dignitas clinic so that he could commit suicide will not face charges, police have said. more

Opposition To NZ Prime Minsister's Euthanasia Slant

Push back to the NZ Prime Minister’s support for considering legalizing euthanasia.

Prime Minister's Support for Euthanasia Legislation Opposed

Right to Life is disappointed at the support of the Prime Minister for Parliament to give consideration to legislation to provide euthanasia in New Zealand. At the recent New Zealand Forum on the Family held in Auckland, the Prime Minister stated that he would support a Private Member's Bill on euthanasia being referred to a Select Committee for consideration. more

Another Example Of Pro-Deather Propaganda As "News"

I keep posting these pro-deather propaganda pieces (masquerading as "news reports") because it makes readers see how transparently cookie-cutter the arguments are. Old man. Not well. Tired of living. Wants to die. Why shouldn’t he? Yadda, yadda, yadda. Same old tired talking points, I'm afraid.

Choosing when to go

When he realized that school wasn't his thing, he dropped out of the College of William & Mary and took a job with a New York City real estate company, launching a career that spanned nearly 50 years. more