Each new euthanasia story from Canada seems more extreme. The latest claims a woman was euthanized against her will after her husband grew tired of caregiving.
One in 20 deaths in Canada in 2023 were from euthanasia—and activists want it broadened still further to even include children as young as 12 years old!
In November 2024, Great Britain voted to legalize euthanasia. With this ruling, they joined countries like Canada, Colombia, and the Netherlands.
In June 2016, Canada legalized euthanasia, otherwise known as medical assistance in dying or MAiD, for those whose death was “reasonably foreseeable.”
Human sacrifice—and specifically child sacrifice—has been common in pagan nations throughout human history.
Should the mentally ill be allowed to choose to end their own lives? That’s a question causing a good deal of debate in Canada.
Should people have a right to death-on-demand by euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide to escape suffering or a life some consider “not worth living”?
Nearly 1 in 3 Canadians hope the government will allow those experiencing poverty or homelessness to end their life with the assistance of a doctor.
Should “severely disabled” newborns be killed by doctors? A group of physicians in Canada thinks so.
An example of the assault on religious freedom comes from California where Christian doctors are suing the state over a revision to the assisted suicide law.
Dutch court grants doctors the right to kill patients without their approval, effectively legalizing murder and devaluing life in a culture of death.
Roger Foley, who has a degenerative brain condition, is suing a hospital, health care agencies, and the government for denying his right to “assisted life.”
Euthanasia is the idea that a patient can choose to end their own life with a doctor’s help. Belgium now allows children of any age to choose euthanasia.
There can be a fine line between comfort measures and euthanasia. We must be careful not to allow a living will to cross that line.
Abuse the elderly and discard the disabled: twin threats of euthanasia
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Are controversies over religion, origins, and the like merely academic? Of course not; new research reminds us of the powerful connection between values and actions.
Hippocrates' 'Oath' encapsulated the position of many of the Greek philosophers in condemning suicide, notably Pythagoras, and became the standard of ethics for doctors to follow.
Euthanasia is one of the most critical issues ever to face Western society.
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