Spanish Opposition To Legalizing Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia

Here’s some strong Spanish opposition to introducing legislation legitimating assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Spain’s main conservative and socialist parties join in rejecting euthanasia bill

Spain’s two major parties, the conservative People’s Party (PP), and the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE), have joined their votes to thwart the introduction of legislation that would permit euthanasia and assisted suicide. more

Spanish Socialists For Assisted Suicide

In Spain, the Socialists are taking up the cause of assisted sucide - aren’t we lucky?

Radical branch of Socialist Party pushing Spain toward euthanasia

The organization Professionals for Ethics has warned that pro-euthanasia associations, working together with the radical wing of the Socialist Party, are hoping to “achieve their ideological goal of making death legal.” more

Spanish Bishop Right About What Constitutes Euthanasia

The good Spanish bishop is right, of course. When you remove food and water from a comatose patient, you are, in fact, committing euthanasia. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Bishop describes Spanish family's decision as act of euthanasia

Huelva, Spain, Aug 30, 2011 / 05:22 pm (CNA).- The Bishop of Huelva, Spain is declaring the decision to remove food and water from a 90-year-old comatose woman an act of euthanasia. more

Spain: Opposition To Euthanasia Too Little, Too Late?

The Spanish Church is speaking out against the legalization of euthanasia in Spain. I hope they can stem the tide, but in Europe over the last 50 years, the church's influence has waned considerably.

Proposed euthanasia law must be rejected, state Spanish bishops

Spain's bishops condemned a proposed “death with dignity law” and declared that the bill in its current form must be abolished, modified or rejected. more

Always True: Patients Can Refuse Treatment

This is misleading, implying that the Spanish are in favor of hastening death aka euthanasia or assisted suicide. All that's happened is that the Spanish have confirmed that, as is the case in most places, patients can declare that they want no more medical treatment because they are at peace with the natural dying process.

Terminally ill could get right to die faster under law approved by Spanish government

The Spanish government has approved a law that gives terminally ill patients the right to hasten their deaths by halting medical treatment. more

Spaniard Gets In On The Assisted Suicide Bandwagon

Here’s another example about how swell it is to go to Swiss killing clinic Dignitas and get some help kicking the bucket. If you’ve read some other posts on this site, you’ll know that it’s the missing obvious that concerns me: Where was the medical care? Where was the palliative care? Where was the depression exam? Nah, too difficult. Just kill him off.

Barcelona man commits "assisted suicide" in Switzerland

An 80-year-old Barcelona man with severe respiratory problems has perished in Switzerland in an "assisted suicide" overseen by the Dignitas association and with the help of his two daughters.

Núria, one of the daughters, told journalists from "El Periódico de  Catalunya" today that her Her dad had perished on October 18th in a house in a little village to and from Basel and Zürich. more

So It Goes: Murder & "Mercy" Starting To Become One

Ah yes, on the heels of Canadian murderer Robert Latimer getting the kid-glove treatment upon his release, another case from Spain, where a murderer is claiming the “high ground” of “mercy killing” to “end suffering.” We need to be careful, because if murder and “mercy” become inextricably entwined, we’ll hurtle down the slippery slope to Soylent Green very rapidly indeed.

Retirement home worker in Spain admits “mercy killing” of 11 elderly

A former worker of a retirement home in Spain has admitted to the “mercy killings” or euthanasia of 11 elderly by poisoning them with bleach, an overdose of insulin or a cocktail of drugs.

Joan Villa, former worker of La Caritat home in northeastern town of Olot, owned to the death of three of the elderly residents “to end their suffering.” more

In Spain: Lies, Lies, And More Lies

Earth to Spain – it’s ALREADY possible to die without suffering – it’s called palliative care, which keeps people comfortable and pain free as the natural progression to a natural death occurs. Way better than the nonsense about legalizing killing. What a bunch of lies these people spin.

Spain to pass law to allow death 'with dignity'

MADRID — Spain's socialist government will approve a draft law in March 2011 on end-of-life care that will allow people with incurable diseases to "die with dignity", the deputy prime minister said Friday.

The law will spell out the rights of patients facing death and their families and the medical staff who care for them so they can "die without suffering", Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told reporters after a cabinet meeting. more

The Euthanasia On The Spanish Plain . . .

Ho-hum. Another Euro country report that a majority want to have kicking the bucket to be a legalized, nay “dignified” event. My suggestion: Go ahead, gratify those who think we’re killing the planet because too many of us exist.

OVER HALF SPANIARDS IN FAVOUR OF EUTHANASIA

A study titled Social values and drugs presented in Madrid last Tuesday revealed that over 60 percent of Spaniards aged between 15 and 64 years of age are completely or partially in favour of euthanasia, but only 21 percent view suicide as permissible. more

Pro-Deathers Infiltrate Spain

So the pro-deathers are busy in Spain as well, passing off killing people as “dignified dying.” Oy . . .

Spanish Counseling Centers Push Euthanasia

MADRID, Spain, JUNE 23, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Doctors in Spain are warning against "dignified death" counseling centers that are pushing euthanasia in the form of ideologically slanted living wills.

Ignacio Pascual of the organizations Professionals for Ethics told ZENIT that these "citizens' advice for a dignified death" information offices aim to counsel the sick, elderly and their relatives on end-of-life issues.

However, he said, the centers, in Rivas-Vaciamadrid and Getafe, outside Madrid, are managed by the Asociación Derecho a Morir Dignamente (Right to Die with Dignity Association), which favors euthanasia. more

Spanish Region OKs Euthanasia

So the dominoes fall. Now parts of Spain will allow euthanasia. Of course, they’re not calling it that – instead it’s a “right to a dignified death.”

He who controls the language controls the debate.

Landmark euthanasia bill in Andalucia

ANDALUCIA has passed a landmark ruling allowing euthanasia.

The historical legislation – the first to be approved in Spain – obtained cross party support in Sevilla.

Called the Law Guaranteeing the Right to a Dignified Death, it allows the patient to refuse treatment which will artificially prolong his or her life. more