Pro-Deather Ideas Similar To Nazi Ideas? Absolutely

Let the pro-deathers whine all they want – what they are proposing for people with disabilities and the social context around these issues are very similar to what the Nazis did to Germans with disabilities – there’s absolutely no doubt.

Anger at 'Nazi slur' on right to die lobby

ANTI-euthanasia campaigners have sparked outrage by comparing the stance taken by advocates of right-to-die legislation to elements of Nazism.

The claims will be discussed in Edinburgh this week at what is billed as the first gathering in Europe of campaigners against assisted suicide.

Care Not Killing – an alliance largely of religious groups – has been accused of "cheapening" the issue by opening its conference, the European Symposium on euthanasia and assisted suicide, with a talk entitled Lessons from Nazism.

Dr Andrew Fergusson, a former GP who is chairman of the advisory group for Care Not Killing, admitted the opening theme of the event would be "controversial". He said the comparison stemmed from a judgment in the Nuremberg Trials which said Nazi doctors believed in the existence of a "life unworthy to be lived". more

German Medicos OK Assisted Suicide - Awful

Geez, the German doctors should know better - after all, it was they in WWII who had the handle on euthanasia. Frightening, absolutely frightening.

German Medical Association eases rules on assisted suicide

Germany's medical community has liberalized its code on helping sick patients die, giving more freedom to individual doctors. The change reflects a growing acceptance of assisted suicide among German doctors.

The German Medical Association has presented new guidelines for physician-assisted suicide, allowing greater leeway for doctors to rely on their own conscience when deciding whether to help ill patients die. more

Quebecois Assisted Suicide Hearing Panel Taken To Task

Here's a good commentary on the Canadian hearings to legalize assisted suicide.

It Can Happen Here

American author Sinclair Lewis, in his chilling 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, imagines the United States becoming a fascist state. Doremus Jessop, a small town Vermont newspaper editor, tries valiantly to warn his compatriots that what is taking place in Europe in the 1930s could occur on this side of the Atlantic, but is met with disbelief—“It can’t happen here.”

The National Assembly of Quebec’s Select Committee on Dying with Dignity (with the slogan of the pro-euthanasia movement of the last 30 years written into its very title!) has been holding hearings across the province for several months. They have heard a variety of opinions and will soon be faced with the unenviable task of writing their report. more

For Once, A Euthanasia Art Exhibit That's Worthy

When I firth saw this heading, I thought it was another sicko exhibit in praise of death and organized by pro-deathers. I was wrong. Read on:

"Cause of Death: Euthanasia" art exhibit held in Athens

A visitor looks at a painting by Gertrud Fleck at the "Cause of Death: Euthanasia" exhibition at Benaki museum in Athens January 20, 2011. The 96 works on display from the Prinzhorn collection were created by 18 artists who were mental patients and victims of the Nazis euthanasia programme in 1939-1944. more

At Last: Respect For Nazi Euthanasia Victims

It’s comforting to know that even after all these years, the Austrians are planning on paying respect to the victims of Nazi genocide - respect these victims never received in life. Would that that respect were more pervasive among the pro-deathers today.

Austria to exhume bodies in Nazi euthanasia probe

HALL, Austria (Reuters) - Hundreds of graves found at an Austrian state hospital will be exhumed once the ground thaws to see if any are victims of a Nazi-era purge of patients deemed unworthy to live, authorities said on Tuesday.

The discovery of about 220 bodies in a hospital cemetery during a construction project in Hall, near the Tyrolean capital Innsbruck, aroused suspicions that some of those buried there between 1942 and 1945 were victims of a euthanasia campaign. more

Yes, Aussie Drive For Euthanasia Mirrors The Nazis - No Question

I’m often criticized by my colleagues for drawing what I see as obvious parallels between the pro-deathers and the Nazi drive to rid their world of people with disabilities. Well, at least there’s someone who seems to agree with me, for a change . . .

Secularism leading to Nazi eugenics in Victoria, claims Bishop Peter Elliott

THE "warped practice of eugenics is rising from its Nazi tomb" in Australia, a senior Catholic bishop says.

Bishop Peter Elliott, head of Melbourne's John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family told mass-goers in Bendigo Cathedral on Sunday: "A seek-and-destroy policy kills little human beings in the womb because they are 'guilty' of Down Syndrome, dwarfism or other imperfection.

"They are deemed to be unfit to live for they do not come up to the standard of the 'designer baby' and a healthy, sport-loving race.

"It is no surprise that euthanasia is being strongly promoted today. Nor should it be a surprise that this is the policy of a political and ideological force that puts more value on wattle and wombats than people. more