Center for Bioethics and Cultural Network Explains The Slippery Slope

Here’s a brief, but eloquent riposte to the current assisted suicide/euthanasia madness from the Center for Bioethics and Cultural Network.

Why the CBC opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia

The drive to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia presents a profound challenge to the integrity of medical ethics and the sanctity/equality of human life. As a consequence, the CBC believes that legalizing mercy killing and suicide assistance by doctors (or anyone else) would corrupt medicine, undermine the viability of suicide prevention efforts by sending a mixed societal message, and threaten the lives and equal societal status of the weakest and most vulnerable among us. more

UK: Way Down The Slippery Slope To Death On Demand

For years the pro-death crowd has insisted that assisted sucide is only for terminally ill people. That, of course, has morphed into assisted sucide for a whole bunch of other people - certainly even for those who are not terminally ill. Now this is becoming the norm. The UK's Dr. Death, Michael Irwin, has announced that he will be accompanying a 91-year-old who has no terminal illness to Swiss death clinic Dignitas. Irwin refuses to disclose the identity of the woman. Question: How do we know there's not something nefarious going on here? Answer: we don't, and probably never will.

Hove Dr Death plans to take "healthy" Eastbourne 91 year old to suicide clinic

A euthanasia campaigner nicknamed Dr Death has said he is preparing to take a Sussex woman abroad to be helped to die.
Michael Irwin said he is expecting to escort the 91-year-old – who does not have a terminal illness – to Switzerland’s Dignitas clinic in the next few months. more

Should Assisted Living Become Assisted Dying?

The New York Times here jumps on the latest darling pro-deather issue: Voluntary ceasing to eat and drink as a way to die. Interesting angle: Should this be allowed in an assisted "living" facility? In this case, the facility (rightly, I think) reported the couples' actions as a kind of suicide-in-progress. Predictably, the story is very sympathetic to the couple who chose to die.

Deciding to Die, Then Shown the Door

Armond and Dorothy Rudolph had talked about their plans for more than a decade. They had a mutual horror of a lingering decline in their final years. They’d joined an organization that supports the right to end life when illness or pain becomes overwhelming; they’d attended meetings and given both their children literature on the subject. They’d drafted advance directives.
“Their great fear was that they’d end up in a nursing home,” their son, Neil Rudolph, told me. “That was hell for them, to have people waiting on them, to have no independence.” more