All posts tagged with assisted suicide
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-(Natural News) The Dutch government is moving forward with controversial plans to allow children to legally end their own lives via state-sanctioned assisted suicide. Health minister Hugo De Jonge is drafting legislation to change the current rules to enable children aged 12 and younger to undergo doctor-assisted suicide with the consent of their parents. He […]
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-(Natural News) Having to be locked down at home due to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is making it difficult for purveyors of assisted suicide to make in-home death calls. Because of this, one university professor wants to make it so that families can administer these grim reaper drug cocktails themselves. Anita Hannig, an associate professor […]
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-(Natural News) The Canadian newspaper Ottawa Citizen is celebrating the legalization of assisted suicide in Canada because now there are a whole lot more organs and tissues available for desperate patients. Because Ontario’s transplant waiting list is usually around 1,600 patients at any given time, according to the paper, this abundance of new organs and tissues is decreasing […]
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-(Natural News) In a 69-51 vote, New Zealand’s parliament has voted to pass the so-called “End of Life Choice Bill,” which would legalize both euthanasia and assisted suicide for people over the age of 18 who suffer from terminal illnesses that have the potential to end their lives within six months. The controversial legislation recently […]
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-(Natural News) The Canadian medical system has a smart way of saving money: helping people commit suicide when their care becomes too costly. This sickening truth about the country’s socialized medicine was recently illustrated by the case of a 41-year-old British Columbia man, Sean Tagert, who had been living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. […]
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-(Natural News) Victoria has become the first state in Australia to legalize assisted dying. The final ratification of the bill concludes more than two and a half years of intense debate and controversy. Premier Daniel Andrews, who heavily lobbied for the law, calls the decision a “victory” for those who are terminally ill — one […]
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-(Natural News) Will the American Medical Association soon be in favor of physician-assisted suicide? In early June, the AMA decided not to reaffirm its position against assisted suicide – a decision which has shocked many. But indeed, the AMA has gone against its own Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, which recommended the AMA maintain its opposition of euthanasia […]
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-(Natural News) Should a doctor be allowed to give an adult who is terminally ill and has fewer than six months to live a medication that will allow them to die peacefully in their sleep if they request it? After opposing assisted death officially since 1996, the Massachusetts Medical Society has now become neutral on […]
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-(Natural News) Last December, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser officially signed into law the Death and Dignity Act of 2016, which essentially allows doctors and physicians to give terminally ill patients above the age of 18 life-ending medication. Now, roughly seven months later, that law is finally being implemented. Of course, there are some regulations. […]
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-(Natural News) While involuntary euthanasia – the act of ending someone’s life without their consent to spare them pain and suffering – is illegal in the United States, assisted suicide – or voluntary euthanasia – is legal in six U.S. states. In Washington, Oregon, California, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana, doctors may prescribe lethal doses […]
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