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1.6KAnalysisDespite claims to the contrary, assisted death is suicide and it is a tragedy
As the call to make assisted suicide legal in the United Kingdom gains popularity, one advocate is publicly making the claim that...
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1.5KInternationalEuthanasia, assisted suicide one step closer to legalization in Portugal
Portugal’s Parliament has approved a revised version of a bill that would legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill or seriously...
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1.3KInternationalScotland proposal hails cost benefits of assisted suicide while allowing Zoom consultations
A new proposal would allow Scottish citizens who live in rural areas to have their requests for assisted suicide approved over Zoom....
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1.0KInternationalAssisted suicide proposal fails to proceed in Ireland’s legislature
A proposal to allow physician-assisted suicide has failed for the second time in Ireland’s legislature. According to Newstalk, the Justice Department has...
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2.3KIssuesFour psychiatrists speak out against assisted suicide: Legal doesn’t mean ethical
When it comes to assisted suicide, some doctors are reminding us that legal doesn’t always mean ethical. In an article in Psychiatric...
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1.3KInternationalScotland to consider legalizing physician-assisted suicide
UPDATE, 7/6/21: A Scottish physician group, Our Duty of Care, has sent a letter to signed a letter to Health Secretary Humza Yousaf...
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2.6KAnalysisCanada faces pushback over expanding assisted suicide for those with mental illness
Canada’s ever-accelerating expansion of physician-assisted suicide gained significant momentum with the government’s March 2021 decision to allow mental illness as a qualifying...
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2.3KAnalysisShock claim: Assisted suicide is needed so women won’t have ‘burden’ of caring for the sick
The assisted suicide lobby has long argued that doctors should be able to kill their patients so people can avoid what they...
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2.4KHuman RightsConnecticut lawmakers introduce assisted suicide bill again
According to the Hartford Courant, Connecticut lawmakers will again introduce an assisted suicide bill despite multiple failures to pass similar legislation beginning...
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2.3KAnalysisTwo years ago, Ireland legalized abortion. Will assisted suicide be next?
After legalizing abortion just two years ago, euthanasia seems to be next on the agenda in Ireland. A bill to make assisted...
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1.8KHuman InterestWoman with cystic fibrosis planned assisted suicide until a miracle drug gave her hope
In 2013, 33-year-old Jennie Thornton from the United Kingdom announced that she planned to go to Dignitas to die by assisted suicide. Diagnosed...
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2.2KHuman RightsOvercome the myths surrounding assisted suicide to help prevent it
Jeanette Hall was 55 years old when she learned she had inoperable colon cancer. She lived in Oregon and had voted to...
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1.5KAnalysisAssisted suicide deaths 10 times higher than expected in Australian state
In 2017, the state of Victoria became the first state in Australia to legalize assisted suicide. Anyone diagnosed with a terminal disease...
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1.8KInternational‘Intrinsically evil’: New Zealand lawmakers pass legislation to allow assisted suicide
New Zealand legislators have passed a bill that would allow a terminally ill person with a diagnosis of fewer than six months...
