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"New England Journal of Medicine publishes 1296-word article on how medical schools should weed out students who will become bad doctors. But words religion, religious, church, synagogue, ethics are not mentioned. Getting along in system is emphasized. Sad."
. . . David C. Stolinsky, MD
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Of cancer patients, TWO PERCENT wanted to change doctors because the doctors didn't approve of assisted suicide, but NINETEEN PERCENT wanted to change doctors because the doctors DID approve. (May 31, 2018 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, page 2062, vol. 378.)
Click here for PSYCHIATRIC PERSPECTIVES Articles
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American Medical Association Maintains Opposition To Assisted Suicide (2023)
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American Medical Association Retains Policy against Assisted Suicide (2023)
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British Infant Indi Gregory Given More Time to Live (2023)
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Is Organ Harvesting Euthanasia Patients Unleashing Ethical Crisis? (2023)
- Assisted Suicide By Telehealth May Continue Until 2025 (2023)
- American Medical Association (AMA) Is Debating Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia (2023)
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Twenty-Five Years of the "Oregon Model" of Assisted Suicide: the Data Are Not Reassuring by Prof. David Albert Jones, Director, Anscombe Bioethics Centre (2023)
- Psychiatrist: Anorexia Does Not Justify Aid in Dying
(2023)
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Assisted Suicide: A Perverse Disincentive in Health Care
(2023)
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Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital Position on Assisted Suicide
(2023)
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CDC Undercounts Suicide Epidemic by Not Including Assisted Deaths
(2023)
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Patients Opting for Euthanasia in the Face of Painful Circumstances
(2023)
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Committee Stalemates over Controversial Changes to Brain Death Law
(2023)
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U.K. Medical Society Goes "Neutral" on Euthanasia as Quebec Expands Eligibility
(2023)
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Healthcare Advocacy and Leadership Organization
(2023)
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"Harm Reduction" is Euthanasia's New Euphemism (2023)
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Tightens Regulations On Schedule II Controlled Substances (2023)
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A New Colorado Law Outlaws Doctors' Prescribing Of A Medical-Abortion-Reversal Treatment
(2022)
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Proposed Regulation For Prescribing Controlled Substances Via Telemedicine
(2023)
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France's Ordre National Des Medecins Releases Statement Opposing Euthanasia (2023)
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Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide
(2023)
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Florida Doctors Say NO To Assisted Suicide
(2023)
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Support The DEA And Prevent Assisted Suicide By Telehealth (2023)
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Psychiatric Euthanasia and Mental Illness Suck (2023)
- Euthanasia and Medical Error. Revisiting the Issue.
(2023)
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Recent Medscape Survey Indicates that Doctors are Divided on Life and Death Issues
by Lisa Blumberg (2023)
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Canadian Disability Groups Tell Members That They Will Not Offer Euthanasia
(2023)
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Lethal Assisted Suicide Drugs Were Accidentally Ingested In Colorado (2022)
- Canada To Delay Implementing Euthanasia For Mental Illness Alone
(2022)
- We Aren't an Anti-Suicide Culture Anymore
(2022)
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Washington Post Boosts Suicide by Self-Starvation
(2022)
- World Medical Association Journal: Normalizing Death as "Treatment" in Canada (See page 27)
(2022)
- Canadian Doctors Offer Euthanasia Before Receiving A Request
(2022)
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Canada Is Going Too Far With Medical Assistance In Dying. The Danger Of Abuse Is Becoming Ever More Apparent
(2022)
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New Organ Transplant Procedure Violates The Dead Donor Rule
(2022)
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World Medical Association upholds Conscience Protections
(2022)
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Ontario Man Approved For Euthanasia (Maid) Can't Get Needed Medical Treatment
(2022)
- They Reported Anne Heche Was "Brain Dead" and Harvested Her Organs
(2022)
- Euthanasia Promoting Doctor Admits That Safeguards Fail
(2022)
- Canadian Doctor, Assisted By A Lawyer From Oradea, Fights With The Government To Dispel The Myth Of Assisted Suicide
(2022)
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Baby Declared "Brain Dead" Begins To Breath On His Own
(2022)
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Canada's Liberal Euthanasia Laws Create Culture Of Death
(2022)
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Shopping For a Death Doctor in Canada
(2022)
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Health Canada releases 2021 euthanasia report. More than 10,000 deaths representing 3.3% of all deaths
(2022)
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Canadian Children's Activity Book Indoctrinates Kids into Euthanasia (2022)
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Euthanasia by Advanced Directive - A Recipe For Abuse
(2022)
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Canadian MP Kelly Block: Support Conscience Right Bill C-230
(2022)
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Unable to See Neurosurgeon, Disabled Canadian Woman Contemplates Euthanasia
(2022)
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Assisted Suicide Is A Cancer That Is Destroying Authentic Palliative Care
(2022)
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Assisted Suicide Must Not Be Confused With Palliative Care
(2022)
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Vermont Legalizes Assisted Suicide by Zoom
(2022)
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Some New Zealanders with COVID Could be Eligible for Assisted Dying
(2022)
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Harvey Chochinov: Patient Centred Care - Not Death Hastening
(2022)
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Today's Health Care and the Hypocritical Oath
(2022)
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Concerned With The Growth Of The Radical Assisted Suicide Groups
(2022)
- Pushing Assisted Suicide for "Terminal" Anorexia (2022)
- Dr Josephine Glaser: Response to George Will's Support for Assisted Suicide (2022)
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Spain Joins the Euthanize-and-Organ-Harvest Club
(2022)
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Hippocratic Medicine is Hallowed Ground
(2022)
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Expert Warns Euthanasia Leads To "Casual Death"
(2022)
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Hospital Loses "Futile Care" Attempt to Force Covid Patient Off Life Support
(2022)
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Assisted Suicide For Anorexia Nervosa
(2022)
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Assisted Suicide Lobby Knows That The Lethal Drug Cocktail Causes A Painful Burning Sensation
(2022)
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Peter Singer: Deny Unvaccinated ICU Care Versus Vaccinated (2022)
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Austrian Assisted Suicide Law For People With Disabilities Began On January 1st (2022)
- COVID-19 Patients May Be Eligible For Euthanasia In New Zealand (2021)
- We Are Becoming Pro-Suicide (2021)
- Professor Michael Fraas Discusses 5 Recent Brain Injury Breakthroughs (2021)
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Medical Aid in Dying, Hastened Death, and Suicide: A Qualitative Study of Hospice Professionals' Experiences From Washington State
(2021)
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"It's Stressful To Kill Somebody": The Healthcare Workers Who Support Assisted Dying
(2021)
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What Is a "Death Doula" and Why Is The Assisted Suicide Lobby So Interested?
(2021)
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A Medical Perspective On The Voluntary Assisted Dying Debate
(2021)
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Assisted-Suicide Mendacity: Today's "Strict Protections" Become Tomorrow's Unjust "Barriers"
(2021)
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Doctors Said Her Baby Would Be Born Brain Dead, But Now He's Taking His First Steps
(2021)
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What is the Good of Euthanasia? Part IV: What it Means To Present Euthanasia As "Medical care"
(2021)
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Quebec Doctor Testifies That Covid Patients Were Euthanized Rather Than Treated
(2021)
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Help The Delta Hospice Society Remain A No Kill Hospice
(2021)
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Assisted Suicide Is Neither Painless Nor Dignified
(2021)
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Canadian Cancer Patients Dying By Euthanasia Are Less Likely To Have The Diagnosis Confirmed Or Attempted Effective Treatments
(2021)
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Doctors Warn: One In Ten Wrongful Assisted Suicide Deaths
(2021)
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Euthanasia: Why Are We Letting All Those Perfectly Good Organs Go To Waste?
(2021)
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The Euthanasia Lobby Is Promoting Suicide? (2021)
- Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs (2021)
- Amazon Sells Suicide-by-Starvation Book (2021)
- The Case Against Naming Ezekiel Emanuel to Lead the FDA (2021)
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Long-Term Prognosis for Some Patients With Severe Brain Injury Better Than Expected, Study Shows (2021)
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Bioethicists Propose Time-Delayed Suicide Implant for Dementia Patients (2021)
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Assisted Suicide Researchers Want Suicide Devices For People With Dementia (2021)
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Court Wrong to Okay Refusal of Life-Saving Medication to Prisoners (2021)
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Computer Program Developed in Canada to Predict When Seniors Have 6 Months to Live (2021)
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The Disturbing Campaign to Legalise Assisted Dying (2021)
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California 2020 Assisted Suicide Report - 435 "Reported" Deaths (2021)
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Medics Oppose Assisted Suicide Bill (2021)
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Computer Program Developed in Canada to Predict When Seniors Have 6 Months to Live (2021)
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British Columbia Cancer Patient Was Pushed Toward (MAiD) Euthanasia (2021)
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Can We Find A Vaccine For The Euthanasia Virus Pandemic? by bioethicist Margaret Somerville (2021)
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Sign The Petition: No Assisted Suicide By Telehealth (2021)
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No Assisted Suicide by Telehealth (2021)
- World Medical Association Moots Mandatory Referral For Euthanasia and Abortion (2021)
- Canadian Man Dies By Euthanasia After Adverse Drug Reaction (2021)
- Assisted suicide Is Not About Pain (2021)
- AMA Helps Normalize Organ Harvesting after Euthanasia (2021)
- Case study: Organ Donor Homicide (2021)
- Opposing Assisted Suicide by Telehealth (2021)
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Suicide Is Not Something To Be Encouraged Or Assisted (2021)
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Belgium's Euthanasia Law Criticized At UN Human Rights Council (2021)
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Veterinarian Suicide Rate Should Concern Physicians Who Do Euthanasia (2021)
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Connecticut Assisted Suicide Bill Has Foundation Of Abusive Practices
- Hospice Chaplain: Physician-Aided Death Is Not Healthcare
(2021)
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Organ Donation Following Euthanasia (2021)
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Doctor-Turned-Patient Realizes How Disabled People Are Nudged To Be Euthanized (2021)
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Op-Ed: Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying = Torturous Death by Joel Zivot, MD
(2021)
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California Bill to Force M.D. Participation in Assisted Suicide (2021)
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Canada's Senate Amends Bill C-7 To Include Euthanasia For Mental Illness And Incompetent People (2021)
- Bill C-7 Will Sacrifice The Medical Profession's Standard of Care (2021)
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What the COVID Crisis Tells Us About the Dangers of Assisted Suicide (2021)
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Is Death By Euthanasia Similar To Death By Drowning? (2021)
- Sign And Share The Petition Opposing Child Euthanasia (2021)
- Canadian Man Dies By Legal Asssited Suicide Amid "Disturbing" Living Conditions At Retirement Home (2021)
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Now Another State Wants Non-Physician-Assisted Suicide (2021)
- Doctors Bouchard, Coelho and Herx: Physicians Should Not Be Forced To Make Assisted-death Referrals (2021)
- UN Human Rights Experts: Disability Is Not A Reason To Sanction Euthanasia (2021)
- UN Human Rights Experts: Disability Is Not A Reason To Sanction Medically Assisted Dying (2021)
- Study Uncovers Euthanasia Deaths Based on Loneliness in the Netherlands (2020)
- Webinar: Psychiatrists Should NOT be Participating in Euthanasia (2020)
- Webinar: Assisted Suicide Lethal Drug Experiments on Humans in the USA (2020)
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Dutch Doctors Can Now Drug Dementia Patients Before Killing Them to Prevent Resistance (2020)
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The Federal Government Should Rethink Its New Medical Assistance In Dying Law (2020)
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Dr. Catherine Frazee - Justice Committee Parliamentary Hearing - Bill C-7 Begs the Question, Why People With Disabilities? (2020)
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The Five Year Review of MAiD: Will Parliament Do Its Job? (2020)
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VIDEO: Assisted Suicide Lethal Drug Experiments on Humans in the USA (2020)
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Biden Health Advisor Thinks All People Should Seek to Die at Age 75 (2020)
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Suicide by Starvation and Expanded Assisted Suicide Promoted in New England Journal of Medicine (2020)
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Canadian Push for Medical Schools to Teach Euthanasia (2020)
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Doctors are Saying No to Assisted Suicide in New Zealand (2020)
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Grandma Took Her Life Yesterday. Her Doctors Helped Her. (2020)
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Suicide M.D. Conducts Human Experiments in Making People Dead (2020)
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Do Euthanasia Drugs Cause A Painful Death? (2020)
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Boy, 12, To Have Life-Support Withdrawn Against Parents' Wishes (2020)
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Practising Medicine "With Conscience And Dignity" (2020)
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Alumna Battling Cancer Speaks Publicly About Her Gratitude For Right To Try Act (2020)
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Euthanasia Drug Can Cause Excruciating Death (2020)
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A Tale of Two Cities
(2020)
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Patients Can No Longer Assume That Doctors Are Committed To Protecting Life (2020)
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Texas Hospital Impeding Mother's Attempt to Save Baby's Life (2020)
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An Independent Investigation Must Be Done After 6300 New York Covid-19 Patients Were Sent To Nursing Homes (2020)
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The Deadly "Quality of Life" Ethic (2020)
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Is The Legality Of Assisted Suicides Driving Up Suicides In General? (2020)
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Delta Hospice Is Still Being Pressured To Do Euthanasia (2020)
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Rethinking Nursing Homes. Supporting Community Based Care (2020)
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A Different Type Of COVID-19 Death (2020)
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Assisted Suicide By Zoom
(2020)
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Eugenics Must Not Be Allowed To Sneak In With Coronavirus
(2020)
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Dutch Court Rules Patients With Advanced Dementia Can Be Euthanised
(2020)
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Governor Appoints Wife's Business Partner, Die at 75 Advocate as Senior Advisor to Panel to Reopen Connecticut (2020)
- Pandemic Palliative Care Protocol. Selecting People To Die And Abusing The Purpose Of Palliative Care (2020)
- Sign The Petition: Healthcare Regulations Must Not Permit Assisted Suicide Approvals By Telehealth
(2020)
- Healthcare Regulations Must Not Permit Assisted Suicide Approvals By Telehealth
(2020)
- Euthanasia Doctor Developed Ontario Covid-19 Triage Guidelines
(2020)
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US Department Of Health And Human Services Will Uphold Human Rights In Relation To Health Care Resource Allocation (2020)
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Death Doctors Use Covid-19 Crisis To Permit "Aid-in-dying" Via Telehealth (2020)
- COVID-19 and the New Death Calculus (2020)
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Deciding Who Gets Treated and Who Doesn't: Worldview Lessons from Coronavirus Pt. 2 (2019)
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Coronavirus Crisis: The Wrong Way To Decide Which Patients Get Hospital Care (2020)
- Press Release: A Euthanasia Saves Money And Provides Organs For Donation (2020)
- Press Release: A Assisted Suicide Lobby Is Using Covid 19 Virus To Promote Assisting Suicides Via Telehealth (2020)
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Medical Journal Pushes Harvesting Kidneys from Dying Patients (2020)
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Indiana Assisted Suicide Bill Fails To Protect Objecting Practitioners (2020)
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Lethal Problems with Medical Futility and Disability Bias (2020)
- Canada Becomes World Leader In Organ Donation After Euthanasia (2020)
- Death by Organ Donation - Euthanizing Patients For Organs (2019)
- Emergency Room Promoting Shocking Practice (2019)
- Delta Hospice Ordered By Fraser Health To Do Euthanasia (2019)
- Delta Hospice Must Not Be Forced to do Euthanasia (2019)
- Sign Petition: Hospice Organizations Must NOT be forced to do Euthanasia (2019)
- Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Leaders - Joint Call to Action (2019)
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Philosopher: Denying Assisted Suicide To People With Mental Illness Is Discrimination (2019)
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Dutch Doctors Told To Lie On Euthanasia Reports
(2019)
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Marketing Death and Alzheimer's Disease
(2019)
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Assisted Suicide Doctors To Train Doctors To Kill (2019)
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Doctor Group Gets Cozy With "Aid In Dying" Push
(2019)
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"Do or Refer" Doctors Are Not Allowed to Use Their Best Judgment for Individual Patients (2019)
- Woman Pressured To Approve Death By Sedation / Dehydration For Her Aunt (2019)
- Liver Transplants After Futhanasia (2019)
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Your Doctor: Professional, Business Person, or Agent of the State? By David Stolinsky, MD (2019)
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Medicating People Without Consent Or Against Their Expressed Wish Is Illegal (2019)
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America Moves To Protect Conscience Rights For Healthcare Professionals (2019)
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Canada's Version Of Medicare For All Executes Thousands Of Patients A Year (2019)
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Assisted Suicide and "Failure of Unconsciousness" (2019)
- Many Assisted Suicide Deaths Are Slow And Painful, Not Dignified Or Compassionate (2019)
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Death On Demand: Has Euthanasia Gone Too Far?
(2019)
- "Why Euthanasia Is Unethical" December 2018 World Medical Association Journal (Page 33)
(2018)
- American Medical Association Has A Growing Opposition To Assisted Suicide (2018)
- Scientists Push Assisted Suicide For "Dignity" of Alzheimer's Patients (2018)
- ACLU Demands Hawaii Retirement Home Participate In Assisted Suicide (2018)
- Study: Most People Don't Know What "Assisted Suicide" Actually Means (2018)
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Euthanasia Zealots Push Starving Patients to Death as "Death With Dignity"
(2018)
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Quebec Doctors Now "Abruptly" Euthanize Sick Patients As First Resort: Study
(2018)
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Open Letter To American Medical Students Concerning Assisted Suicide
(2018)
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Diane Coleman: I Depend On Life-support To Stay Alive. Why I Oppose Assisted Suicide Laws
(2018)
- Who Will Protect Canadian Doctors If They Are Forced To Refer For Euthanasia? (2018)
- Amend Law To Allow Organ Donor Euthanasia, Say Canadian Doctors (2018)
- Making Death Easier Makes Life Harder (2018)
- Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Oppose Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (2018)
- Keep the "Dead Donor Rule"
(2018)
- Canadian And Dutch Medical Associations Pressure World Medical Association To Change Policy Opposing Euthanasia (2018)
- Euthanasia by Organ Donation
(2018)
- Canadian And Dutch Medical Associations Pressure World Medical Association To Change Policy Opposing Euthanasia (2018)
- "Persistent Vegetative State" Is Not A Reason To Kill
(2018)
- A Tale of Three Patients: Preventive Care or Preventing Care? by Dr. David C. Stolinsky
(2018)
- Medical Experts Now Agree that Severely Brain-injured Patients are Often Misdiagnosed and May Recover (2018)
- Severely Brain-injured Patients Are Commonly Misdiagnosed, Often Aware And May Well Recover, Says Authoritative New Report
(2018)
- 12 Myths About Assisted Suicide and Medical Aid In Dying
(2018)
- 12 Myths About Physician Assisted Suicide and Medical Aid In Dying
(2018)
- AMA To Continue To Review Its Position On Assisted Suicide
(2018)
- AMA Still Says No to Assisted Suicide
(2018)
- "It's Completely Crazy": Physicians Slam Danish Doctor Of Death's Suicide Manual
(2018)
- Assisted Suicide Machine Puts Occupants To Death With Click Of A Button
(2018)
- Alfie Evans Is Killed, NHS Commits Suicide
(2018)
- Boy, 13, Regains Consciousness After Parents Sign Papers To Donate His Organs
(2018)
- Brain Death Court Cases Becoming More Common
(2018)
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Pain Doctors Face Greater Scrutiny Than Death Doctors (2018)
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The Push to Starve Dementia Patients Appears in the New York Times (2018)
- Dignity Lies in Palliative Care --- Not in Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill
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US Nurse Charged With Murder. Assisted Suicide Laws Will Not Protect People From Medical Killers (2018)
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Disturbing Report Finds Doctors Euthanizing Cancer Patients Without Their Consent (2018)
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Medical Professionals Resign Due To Euthanasia Laws (2018)
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African Regional Meeting of the World Medical Association (2018)
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The Alarming Trend Of Bullying Hospitals And Hospices Into Doing Assisted Suicide (2018)
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How Does Assisting With Suicide Affect Physicians? (2018)
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In 40 Years Of Terminal Care I've Never Seen Unmanageable Suffering (2018)
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Difference Between Palliative Sedation and Euthanasia Sedation (2018)
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Diabetics Are Eligible for Assisted Suicide in Oregon
(2018)
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Dutch research institute chillingly tells man with Down Syndrome how much he costs society (2017)
- Canadian Paediatricians Consider Extending Euthanasia To Newborns, Minors And Teens (2017)
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Beware: Doctors Cannot Tell When A Patient Will Die (2017)
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Terminal: What Does It Mean (2017)
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Opening Door to Assisted Suicide Organ Donors (2017)
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Government Health Care + Contempt for the Disabled: A Dangerous Mix (2017)
- Netherlands and Belgium are Euthanizing Mentally Ill Patients and Harvesting Their Organs (2017)
- Charlie Gard Situations Have Happened Here Too (2017)
- Should Your Doctor Cast Off the "Cloak of Conscience"? by Dr. David C. Stolinsky (2017)
- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: O Canada! (2017)
- Ontario Doctors Will Leave The Province If Forced To Participate In "Assisted Dying" (2017)
- The Danger from Assisted Suicide Prescriptions is Real (2017)
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I'm Terminally Ill And The Euthanasia Debate Scares Me (2017)
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Sacrificing Hospitals, and Freedom of Conscience Along with It (2017)
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Nursing Home Euthanizes Woman Who Only Had a Bladder Infection (2016)
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Doctor-Assisted Suicide? Neutrality Is Not An Option BY Frederick J. White, M.D. (2016)
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Protecting Patients In The Shadows Of Euthanasia (2016)
- New York Times Wants Nursing Homes to Starve Patients to Death "Without Asking Permission" (2016)
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Dr Ramona Coelho: "I'm just trying to live by my conscience" (2016)
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Short Video: Dr. William Bolthouse Explains the "Dark Side" of Assistant Suicide (2016)
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Medical Aid In Dying Is "Madness," Jewish General Hospital Doctor Says (2016)
- The American Medical Association Goes Wobbly on Physician-Assisted Suicide (2016)
- Medical Ethics Journal Lays Out Case For "Organ Donation Euthanasia" (2016)
- Glorifying Death: Don't Make Heroes Out of Doctors Who Kill Patients in Assisted Suicide (2016)
- California Assisted Suicide Law Is Unconstitutional... Killling Is Never Medical Care (2016)
- Man Wakes Up After 12 Years in "Vegetative State": Reveals, "I Was Aware Of Everything" (2016)
- Why So Many Doctors Oppose Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (2016)
- The Worst MDs Free to Be Suicide Doctors (2016)
- A Subjective Definition of "Death" Would Unleash Great Evil (2016)
- Patients Deemed "Futile" by Doctors Face Encouraged or Imposed Death (2016)
- Dutch Euthanasia Deaths Up Again In 2015: Jumped 50% In Five Years (2016)
- The Deadly Problems Surrounding Canada's Bill C-14 (2016)
- New Belgium Rules Would Force Doctors to Euthanize Patients or Refer to a Doctor Who Will (2016)
- Canada Declares War on Christian Doctors and Nurses (2016)
- JAMA Debates Assisted Suicide (2016)
- Man Who Awoke From 12-Year Coma Was Aware of Everything, But We Still Call Them "Vegetables" (2016)
- Canadian Doctors' Abject Surrender To Euthanasia
(2016)
- Doctor Pushes Health Care Rationing, Wants to Prohibit Elderly Patients From ICUs (2015)
- Canada: Killing People Just Another Medical "Tool" That Taxpayers Should Pay For (2015)
- Video: Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2014
"Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician's role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks." . . . the American Medical Association's official statement.
"Instead of creating a new medical treatment called 'death with dignity,' let's ensure that people have the in-home supports necessary to live in dignity. Old, ill, and disabled people deserve care that does not burden family and caregivers, care that includes mental health support for feelings of demoralization and depression." . . . John Kelly, director of "Massachusetts Second Thoughts: People with Disabilities Opposing the Legalization of Assisted Suicide."
"I have never considered as a doctor that death was a good treatment for anything." . . . Breast cancer surgeon Philippa Whitford, British MP.
- Euthanasia Isn't A Substitute For Palliative Care At the End of Life (2015)
- Assisted Suicide Laws Lower the Overall Quality of American Medicine (2015)
- Dr. Death Makes a Comeback by Dr. Paul McHugh, former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital (2015)
- California Legalizes Assisted Suicide: Blessing or Curse? (2015)
- New California Assisted Suicide Bill: Immunity for Medical Negligence (2015)
- Mentally Disabled Couple Allow Doctors to Euthanize Their Sick 10-Month-Old Son (2015)
- Euthanasia Groups Practice Doctor Shopping (2015)
- Doctor Assisted Suicide Sends Wrong Message by Dr. James Santiago Grisolia (2015)
- What Type of Person Will Abuse Assisted-Suicide Laws? (2015)
- Euthanasia's Cancerous Corruption of Medical Morality (2015)
- Palliative Care Doctors Say They Don't Want Role in Assisted Suicide (2015)
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Video: Brain Cancer Patient Maggie Karner . . . "Assisted suicide puts people like me at risk" (2015)
- Euthanasia Activists Push Starving Alzheimer's Patients to Death (2015)
- Documentary Shows Belgian Doctor Euthanizing a Depressed, Suicidal Woman (2015)
- Scotland: Highland Expert in Palliative Care Attacks Proposals to Allow Assisted Suicide (2015)
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Assisted Suicide: Doctors Should Think Twice Before Signing On (2015)
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Patient With Multiple Sclerosis Was Killed and Her Organs Harvested (2014)
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Brittany Maynard Kills Herself - Should We Feel Relieved? (2014)
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Ezekiel Emanuel, Presidential Advisor:"We Should All Die at 75" (2014)
- Coverage for End-of-Life Talks Gaining Ground
(2014)
- Doctor Kills Woman For Being Depressed, Son Not Informed Until Next Day
(2014)
- Suicide Doesn't Set You Free
(2014)
- Doctors as Healers (2014)
- POLST: Skewed Toward the Patient Not Opting For Potentially Lifesaving Care (2014)
- Pediatric Euthanasia in Belgium, Disturbing Developments (JAMA: Full content available to subscribers)y (2014)
- Brain Trauma: Treatment, Recovery Results Improve Drastically (2014)
- Euthanasia Activists Want Nursing Homes to Starve Patients to Death (2014)
- Medical Error, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (2014)
- Outrage: Psychiatrist Opens Door to "Rational Suicide" (2014)
- Encourages People With Years To Live To Throw Away Their Lives (2013)
- Insane Conversations - talking to children about euthanasia (2013)
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Video: Clinical Professor Ray Lowenthal
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Video: Palliative Care Specialist Dr Paul Dunne
- Affidavit of Kenneth R. Stevens, Jr. MD on His Experiences with the Oregon Assisted Suicide Law (2012)
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The Hippocratic Oath
- Hippocratic Oath (1997, 2006)
- Study Shows People in "Vegetative" State Were Incorrectly Diagnosed (2013)
- Howard Dean Admits Obamacare Includes Death Panels, Wants Them Repealed (2013)
- Assisted Suicide Poses Risk to Vulnerable, Says Senior Doctor (2013)
- Alzheimer's Death in Swiss Suicide Clinic (2013)
- Assisted Suicide: What Isn't in the New England Journal by Dr. David C. Stolinsky (2013)
- Video: Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Live Birth "Abortion" (2013)
- Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking --- Important Questions & Answers (2013)
- Obamacare Death Panels Are Here (2013)
- Doctor Insists Parents Choose Starvation and Slow Death for Baby Born with Cleft Lip (2013)
- Hypothermia Could Prevent Traumatic Brain Injury Victims From Dying (2013)
- Six Lessons From Death in Belgium (2013)
- 20 Percent Who Take Drugs in Assisted Suicides Don't Die
(2013)
- UK Preemie Escapes Death By a Pair of Scissors
(2012)
- Report: Sick Babies Starved to Death Under Socialized Medicine in England
(2012)
- Research: Assisted Suicide Increases Other Suicides
(2012)
- Video: "Euthanasia - Undermining The Doctor Patient Relationship" by Dr. Nicholas Cooling (2012, 9 minutes)
- Why A Leading End-Of-Life Specialist Opposes Assisted Suicide
(2012)
- One in Five "Brain Dead" Patients Still Alive, Claims Lawsuit
(2012)
- Physician-Assisted Suicide -in Direct Conflict- With Doctor's Role
(2012)
- Coming Soon: A "Central Mechanism" for Assisted Dying (2012)
- "Death with Dignity" in Massachusetts:
Elevating Doctor-Prescribed Suicide to "Treatment" Puts Patients at Risk. (2012)
- Bioethicist Argues PVS Diagnosed Patients Should Not Be Kept Alive
(2012)
- Hospital Death Panel Trumps Medical Power of Attorney
(2012)
- Ethicists Justify Infanticide In Major Medical Journal
(2012)
- Cracks Start to Show in "Vegetative State" Diagnosis (2011)
- Help Me, I'm Starving to Death. Six Stone Woman With Paralysed Stomach is Refused Life-Saving Operation
(2011)
- Shock study: Organs Harvested From Euthanized Patients Make Better Transplants?
(2011)
- Does "Human Rights" Now Mean the Right to Kill Infants?
(2011)
- Doctors Pushed Paralyzed Irish Man to Refuse Ventilator and Die
(2011)
- Belgian Surgeons Welcome Euthanasia Organs (2011)
- Catholic Nurse Recounts Hospice Horror, Says Doctor Euthanized Priest (2011)
- Death by Medical Breakthrough (2011)
- Study Finds That a Fraction of Elder Abuse Cases Are Reported (2011)
- Belgian Doctors Harvesting Organs From Disabled Euthanasia Donors (2011)
- "Voluntary" Death Panels May Forgo Assisted Suicide Talk (2010)
- Death Panels Are Just the First Step (2010)
- But Health Care Rationing a Clear and Present Danger (2010)
- 17 Provocative Quotes From Doctors About Assisted Suicide (2010)
- Negative Psychological Impact of Abortion Results from 'Hard-Wiring' in Women's Brains: Scholars (2010)
- Oregon Hospices Not Participating in Assisted Suicide (2010)
- Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to Elderly (2010)
- Danger Of Pressure On Vulnerable Persons And The Devaluation Of Palliative Care Structures (2009)
- Australian Palliative Care Physician on the Threat of Euthanasia (2009)
- "Death Spiral" Rationing in Baucus Bill Gravely Endangers America's Seniors: NRLC (2009)
- Rationing Health Care For Older Americans (2009)
- Doctor: I 'got rid of' patient after Katrina (2009)
- "Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective" (2008)
- Abortion and Euthanasia Bringing about the Demise of Catholic Health Care (2008)
- An Antidote to Assisted Suicide is Aging with Dignity (2008)
- "Quality of Life" is a Misnomer: The Case for Neonatal Euthanasia by Carlo Bellieni, MD (2007)
- A Study of Euthanasia and Depression in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients (2007)
- Treatment of Depression Decreases Suicide (2007)
- Bioethics Journal Advocates Assisted Suicide For Clinically Depressed (2007)
- Is Tube Feeding New, Expensive and Risky? (2007)
- Book by a Hospice Physician (2007)
- Study of 379 Canadians Receiving Palliative Care (2007)
- Report: "Physician-assisted suicide v. Palliative care: a tale of two cities" (2006)
- The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care by Herbert Hendin, M.D.
- "Right" to be Dehydrated Key Right to Die Strategy (2006)
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology to Debate Killing Babies (Is there a difference between withdrawing treatment and actively killing a baby?) (2006)
- Elderly Murder-Suicides Indicate Desperation, Not Compassion, Study Shows (2006)
- Coma Patient's Brain "Repaired Itself" (2006)
- UK Doctors Vote Against Euthanasia (2006)
- Doctors in Revolt Over New Euthanasia Policy (2006)
- Hippocratic Oath and the Year 2006
- Netherlands Patients Requesting Euthanasia Likely Depressed (2006)
- US Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Physician Assisted Suicide Law (2006)
- "Human Non-Person" (2005) - Important Article
- Parents Lose Right-to-Life Appeal (2005)
- Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (2005)
- Now Choose Life: Remembering Auschwitz, or Forgetting It? (2005)
- The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care (2004)
- La eutanasia (2003) - Spanish
- HMO Asks for Doctors Who Will Help Kill (2002)
- Euthanasia Campaigners Infiltrating Hospice Movement (2002)
- "Existential" Suffering Not a Justification for Euthanasia (2001)
- Euthanasia Tells Elderly, Disabled: "Your Life is Worthless" (2001)
- Hospitals' Right to Refuse Care Needed for Life (2000)
- Cancer Specialists' Support for Assisting Suicide, Euthanasia Drops (2000) - Charts
- Summary of Oregon Reports to the New England Journal of Medicine (2001)
- Physicans Support Pain Relief Promotion Act (1999)
- Senate Committee Passes Pain Relief Promotion Act (2000)
- Medical Textbooks Lack Information on End of Life Care (2000)
- Problems Associated with Assisted Suicide (2000)
- Inequities in Health Care for Minorities and the Poor (1999)
- 79% of Americans: No Doctor Veto of Life Support (1999) - Charts
- Assisted Suicide and Cost Containment (1999)
- Oregon: State to Pay for Assisted Suicide (1998)
- Mood Swings 'Create Euthanasia Danger' (1999)
- Medical Professionals Working with Dying Patients (1998)
- National Council on Disability Position Paper (1997)
- British Doctors Reject Euthanasia Proposal (1997)
- Physician Assisted Suicide Medical Issues (1996)
- Withholding Food and Fluids (1991)
- Study: Doctors Ignore Guidelines on Euthanasia
- Hungary Physicans and Advance Directives
- Connecting the Dots: Sanctity of Life Threatened on Many Fronts
- First, Do No Harm
- Fewer Doctors Support Assisted-Suicide Study Says - Charts (1990s)
- Psychiatrist: Anorexia Does Not Justify Aid in Dying
(2023)
- 28% of Canadians Support Euthanasia For Mental Illness
(2023)
- EPC Article on "Suicidology Group Withdrawing Statement on Assisted Suicide"
(2023)
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In Early 2023, Suicidology Group Withdrew Statement NDY Protested
(2023)
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As Psychiatrists, Do We Offer Hope or Do We Offer Death? by Dinah Miller, MD
(2023)
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Wesley J. Smith: New York Times Op-Ed Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Mentally Ill (2023)
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Loneliness Is An Epidemic With Profound Risks To Health And Life
(2023)
- Should Intractable Mental Illness Make You Eligible For Euthanasia?
(2023)
- Canada Legalizes Assisted Death for the Mentally Ill; Doctors Call the Law "Unethical" and "Coercive."
(2022)
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Belgian Neurologist Challenges Euthanasia Death of 23-year-old With PTSD
(2022)
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Euthanasia for PTSD Completes ISIS Terroristic Act (2022)
MAiD (Euthanasia) For Mental Illness And Poverty (2022)
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Euthanasia Panel Member Quit: "Proposals Don't Adequately Protect Canadians With Mental Illness" (2022)
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Assisted Suicide For Anorexia. Anorexia Is Not A Death Sentence - I Am Living Proof Of This (2022)
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Loneliness As A Root Cause Of Symptom Distress Among Older Adults
(2022)
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Bad Company: Loneliness Longitudinally Predicts The Symptom Cluster Of Pain, Fatigue, And Depression In Older Adults
(2022)
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"Offering Euthanasia To A Suicidal Person Leads To Premature Deaths" by Dr. Ramona Coelho
(2022)
- Suicide Contagion (2022)
- "They Killed Our Brother" (2022)
- "Nothing About This Felt OK": The Troubling Debate Over A "Good" Death For All (2022)
- Euthanasia For Mental Illness. Killing People Without A Certain Prognosis (2022)
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Climate Activist Asks For Euthanasia (MAiD) Based On Eco-Anxiety
(2022)
- Belgium Reported Euthanasia Deaths Rise. At Least 50 People Die By Euthanasia For Mental Illness In 2021 (2022)
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Assisted Suicide For Anorexia Is Abandonment
(2022)
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In Europe, Suicides Rise After "Right-to-Die" Is Legalised, Says Bioethicist
(2022)
- Study: Legalizing Assisted Suicide Is Associated with Increased Suicides (2022)
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A Wish To Die Is Most Often Linked To Loneliness And Depression
(2022)
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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Oppose Assisted Dying (2021)
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Physician Assisted Suicide and the Autonomy Myth
(2021)
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Psychiatrist Speaks To Massachusetts Legislative Committee To Oppose Assisted Suicide Bill
(2021)
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As Difficult As It Is Sometimes, There Is Always Hope.” Euthanasia For Mental Illness Is Abandonment
(2021)
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Dr Paul Saba: The Mentally Ill Should Not Be Euthanized
(2021)
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Is Assisted Suicide a Suicide? (2021)
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A Personal Story: NO To Euthanasia For Mental Health Reasons (2021)
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Euthanasia Academic Activist Pushes Euthanasia For Mental Illness In Canada (2021)
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Irish Psychiatrists Comment On The Irish Euthanasia Bill And Mental Illness (2021)
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Against Assisted Suicide by Ronald W. Pies, MD, Mark S. Komrad, MD, Cynthia M.A. Geppert, MD, MA, MPH, MSBE, DPS, Annette Hanson, MD (2021)
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"Your New Law Will Provide, Not Prevent, Suicide for Some Psychiatric Patients" by Mark S. Komrad, MD (2021)
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Terminally Ill Dying Out of Hopelessness and Abandonment (2021)
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Peter Singer Promotes Euthanasia For Mental Illness (2021)
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Nunavut Mental Health Crisis: Assisted Death Provided, Mental Health Treatment Not Provided
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Assisted Suicide ConsideraTion: Depression Triples in US Adults Amid COVID-19 Stressors (2021)
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MAiD (Euthanasia) for Mental Illness (2021)
- MAiD (Euthanasia) for Mental Illness: Myths and Facts by John Maher MD FRCPC(2021)
- 20 Therapists Offer Their Thoughts On Suicide Prevention
(2021)
- Let's Offer Humane And Dignified Living Not Lethal Injection (2021)
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Is Death By Euthanasia Similar To Death By Drowning? (2021)
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Dutch Doctors Can Now Drug Dementia Patients Before Killing Them to Prevent Resistance (2020)
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Requests For Euthanasia Based On Insufficient Support For Disabled Ontarians (2020)
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Over 750 Canadians Demanded To Be Killed In 2019 Due To "Loneliness" (2020)
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Hundreds of Sick Canadians Euthanized for Loneliness (2020)
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Belgium Law Violated To Kill Depressed Woman By Euthanasia. Here Is The Evidence. (2020)
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Deaths of Despair Are Increasing (2020)
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Assisted Suicide For People With Dementia Paves The Way For Non Voluntary Euthanasia (2020)
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Dr. Hanson's Testimony Opposing Assisted Suicide, Due to: Suicide Contagion; Safeguard Failures; and Implications for the Practice of Psychiatry (2020)
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Dr Mark Komrad: "Psychiatrists Prevent Suicide, Not Provide It." (2020)
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Conceiving The Unconceivable: Ethical And Clinical Concerns Over Assisted Suicide For People With Mental Di
sorders by Bernardo Carpiniello (The Journal of the Italian Society of Psychiatry) (2020)
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Conceiving the Inconceivable: Assisted Suicide For People With Mental Illness (2020)
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Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia For Dementia Patients, Following Dispute (2020)
- Press Release: A Assisted Suicide For Mental Illness: Why Safeguards Won't Work (2020)
- Press Release: A Dr Sonu Gaind: Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA) Position On Euthanasia For Psychiatric Reasons Is Embarrassing (2020)
- Press One Word To Describe Newest Euthanasia Push: Insane (2020)
- Press Release: A
Canada Psychiatrists: Refusing Euthanasia for Mentally Ill Is "Discrimination" (2020)
- The Real Nature of Mercy (2020)
- Loneliness Is An Epidemic Among Seniors That Requires A Caring Response (2019)
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Psychiatrists Must Prevent Suicide, Not Provide It (2019)
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: There Are No Best Practices by Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks, MD, MRCPsych (2019)
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Doctors Euthanize Healthy Man Dealing With Depression, Family Begged Not to Kill Him (2019)
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Loneliness Is An Epidemic That Can Be Detrimental To Your Health (2019)
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Dr Mark Komrad: Why Psychiatrists Should Oppose Euthanasia (2019)
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Abandon All Hope: Euthanasia For Mental Disorders (2019)
- Psychiatric Euthanasia Examined in the Netherlands (2019)
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When a Physically Healthy Teen is Allowed to Die
(2019)
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Is Euthanasia Psychiatric Treatment? Flyer
(2018)
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Will Canada Extend Euthanasia For Psychiatric Reasons Alone
(2018)
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Is Euthanasia Psychiatric Treatment
(2018)
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Suicide "Game" Causes Deaths of Boy, 16, and Girl, 12
(2018)
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Issues Families Of Assisted Suicide Victims Plead For The Killing To End
(2018)
- Suicide Is Not Distinct From Assisted Suicide For Psychiatric Reasons
(2018)
- The Troubled 29-year-old Helped To Die By Dutch Doctors
(2018)
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Two Misleading Myths Regarding "Medical Aid in Dying" (2018)
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A Psychiatrist Who Visited Belgium Comments On Euthanasia For Psychological Reasons (2018)
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Physician-assisted Suicide Isn't Right For Doctors. Don't Change The Ama's Position by Dr. Joseph E. Marine (2018)
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Mentally Ill Patients Would be Starved to Death and Denied Food and Water Under New Oregon Bill (2018)
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Psychiatrists Comment On Euthanasia For Psychiatric Reasons In The Netherlands (2018)
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Euthanasia Assessor Resigns Over Euthanasia For Dementia In The Netherlands (2018)
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29-Year-old Dutch Woman Is Scheduled To Die By Assisted Suicide For Psychiatric Reasons (2018)
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Doctor Killed Depressed Woman in Euthanasia, Didn't Tell Family Until Next Day (2017)
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Distinguishing Between Sadness And Depression At The End Of Life: A Significant Challenge Tackled By A Leader In Palliative Care (2017)
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Commentary: Assisted Suicide Is An Affront To Mental Illness, Not A Cure For It (2017)
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Canada Push To Allow Mentally Ill Euthanasia (2017)
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Psychiatric Euthanasia: Salvos Across the Atlantic
(2016)
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Physician-Assisted Death Destroys Medical Ethics, Writes Editor of Medical Journal
(2016)
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American Psychiatric Association Takes Strong Stance Against Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
(2016)
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Court Allows Anorexic Woman to Literally Starve Herself to Death (2016)
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Netherlands Offers Euthanasia for Alcoholics (2016)
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California Prepares For Assisted Suicide Of Patients In Mental Hospitals (2016)
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Assisted Suicide Proponents Now Targeting the Mentally Disabled With Euthanasia (2016)
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Colorado's Prop 106 Sets Bad Example For Kids (2016)
- Dutch Doctors are Euthanizing Mentally Ill Patients and People With Depression (2016)
- Doctors Agreed To Euthanize This Depressed Woman (2016)
- Canada: Assisted Suicide For Psychiatric Patients (2016)
- Belgian Psychiatric Euthanasia Request Based On Sexual Attraction (2016)
- Most Euthanasia Deaths Linked to Loneliness, Says Dutch Study (2016)
- Study: Over 50% of Assisted Suicide Patients Could Have Been Treated (2016)
- Euthanasia Lobby Pushes for Euthanasia of Mentally Disabled People Who Can't Consent
(2016)
- Psychiatric Times Article: Physician-Assisted Suicide: More Than Meets the Eye by By Steven A. King, MD, MS (2016)
- Psychiatric Times Article: Physician-Assisted Suicide: More Than Meets the Eye by By Steven A. King, MD, MS (2016) Second Source
- Dr. Will Johnston: "My young adult patient became actively suicidal after watching a Brittany Maynard video." (2015)
- New Study Shows Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide Increases Suicide Rates (2015)
- Slippery Slope Example: "Australian broadcaster Andrew Denton has voiced his support for the idea that the seriously mentally ill should be allowed access to physician-assisted suicide." (2015)
- It Starts: One of the First Arguments in a Major Bioethics Journal For Non-Voluntary Euthanasia for Psychiatric Patients (2015)
- Study Finds More People Kill Themselves in Suicides When Assisted Suicide is Legalized (2015)
- Julie's Agony Shows Why Suicide Is Never Answer to Depression (2015)
- Physician-Assisted Suicide for Severe Psychiatric Disorders (2015)
- Euthanasia Doctor Kills Woman Because She Was Depressed (2015)
- Paper: Physician Assisted Suicide: A Psychiatric Perspective
- Number of Mentally Ill Patients Killed by Euthanasia in Holland Trebles in a Year as Doctors Warn Assisted Suicide is "Out of Control" (2014)
- Assisted Suicide: Why Psychiatrists Should Engage in the Debate (2011)
- Mental Illness and Euthanasia
- Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and Psychiatry: a Pandora's Box (2002)
- Suicide and Mental Illness
BIOETHICS
"The bias of physicians from the time of Hippocrates, 24 centuries ago, until only a few years ago, was for the continuation of life. The bias is now shifting. Unless we do something, soon the bias will be for the cessation of life as soon as it becomes inconvenient to others. In an era of "cost containment," this thought should trouble all of us." ... by David C. Stolinsky, MD (Click here for article)
"The idea that people with disabilities are not worthy of society's acceptance or resources is not new. We see this form of hatred throughout history, often masked as benevolence. " ... Diane Coleman, J.D., Founder, Not Dead Yet, 1999.
"In my experience, when the pain is bad, what I need is not to be told I'm burdensome and it's my choice whether I want to live or die, and that perhaps I would be better off dead. What I need is to be surrounded by people who tell me, yes, my life does have value, and I'm not burdensome ... they can't take the pain away, but sometimes it's not the pain that hurts the most, it's the fear of being abandoned." ... Alison Davis, who suffers from spina bifida, hydrocephalus, and multiple other disabilities. May 30, 2009.
"A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of
its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will
never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The
intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does
not change depending on their circumstances."
... Pope John Paul II, Lourdes, France, August, 2004.
"... the choice of a mentally competent, terminally ill person to choose to self-administer medications to bring about a peaceful death is not 'suicide,' nor is the prescribing of such medication by a physician 'assisted suicide.' " ... The American Public Health Association (Click here for article.)
"This is pure politics, of course ... It isn't medicine. And it isn't health ... A "surreal world" is being entered, words mean nothing other than what we want them to at the moment, and this is changeable from moment to moment. Clocks run backwards. Up is down, and east is west. The moon is made of blue cheese, if that serves our purposes. And the basic institutions of society are being steadily corrupted." ... Wesley Smith, bioethics specialist and lawyer, commenting on the American Public Health Association statement (Click here for article.)
"No, we're not Nazis. We would never kill the disabled or the elderly. We will simply deny them treatment and give them a "painkiller." And then we will cut back on pain medication as well. Now are you worried?" ... by David C. Stolinsky, MD (Click here for article.)
Take the Hippocratic Oath Too Seriously?
Assisted-Suicide Law Prompts Insurance Company To Deny Coverage To Terminally Ill California Woman
"Is killing an acceptable answer to human suffering?"
"That euthanasia is being used not as a last resort, but as suicide-on-demand in Europe is ignored by those who argue that for the dying to have dignity, they must die faster."
. . . Jonathon Van Maren
A Vermont doctor recently told his elderly patient that the successful treatment plan would be discontinued. The reason given by the doctor:
"Even the elderly, without much time left, should not become addicts. Better that they learn to live with pain."
How ironic in a state that has legalized Assisted Suicide, you can kill yourself, but you can't decide whether or not to take a pain pill? . . . Rosemarie Jackowski
"In the United Kingdom there were calls for a transparent assisted-suicide process, overseen by doctors, medical staff and lawyers. . . . In Oregon,
57 of 59 such cases had a 'compassionate choice volunteer.' Now here, you would throw out the priests
and have a creepy person
who is interested in watching people die!"
. . . New Zealand professor (and atheist) Kevin Yuill.
"Health facilities' introduction of assisted suicide into palliative-care wards and hospices, following legalization of
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in June 2016, has led to a reduction in true palliative-care services . . .
It's like a cancer growing within the palliative care programs,"
. . . Dr. Neil Hilliard, former medical director of palliative care in the Fraser Health BC region.
...
Oxford Professor David Albert Jones on the World Medical Association in 2021 limiting the scope of conscientious objection for euthanasia in its code of ethics:
"if a doctor objects in conscience to participation in torture or capital punishment or to force feeding of a prisoner who is on hunger strike, it would be unprincipled for them to find someone with fewer scruples to do the deed for them. To require a conscientious objector to facilitate delivery of the procedure to which they object is a direct attack on person's conscience and moral integrity, and thus a serious harm to them. It would be much better to say nothing about conscientious objection than to undermine it by imposing a requirement for 'effective and timely referral'."
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