Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Guide to answering the MAID consultation questionnaire (Link). The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) is urging you to participate in the Canadian Department of Justice Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) consultation questionnaire. (Consultation webpage).The language of the consultation questionnaire is not great, nonetheless, the questionnaire does allow you to leave furtherContinue reading “Participate in the Canadian Government MAiD euthanasia consultation”
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Tom Koch: Euthanasia is legal in Canada but that doesn’t make it ethical.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Delta Hospice Society in BC was recently told by Adrian dix, the BC Minister of Health, that they must start doing euthanasia by February 3 or loss provincial funding. In response to this dilemma Dr Tom Koch, a consulting medical ethicist and gerontologist and author of the bookContinue reading “Tom Koch: Euthanasia is legal in Canada but that doesn’t make it ethical.”
Euthanasia pushed as boon to Organ Donation.
This article was published by National Review online on January 6, 2020. Wesley J Smith By Wesley J Smith My very first anti-euthanasia column, published in Newsweek, warned that societal acceptance of assisted suicide/euthanasia would eventually include organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” I was called an alarmist and a fear-monger, but alas, I was right.Continue reading “Euthanasia pushed as boon to Organ Donation.”
2019: 25 important articles on euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Fatal Flaws film will change the way you view assisted death. (Link)Donation to the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. (Link)● Jan 11: Canadian woman seeks euthanasia from pelvic mesh pain. (Link) ● Jan 14: Why euthanasia is unethical. (Link) ● Jan 22: Canada’s new Justice Minister is radically pro-euthanasia. (Link) ● March 13: New Mexico assisted suicide bill was stopped. (Link)Continue reading “2019: 25 important articles on euthanasia and assisted suicide.”
Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians: Euthanasia is not consistent with the philosophy, intent or approach of hospice palliative care.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition *Sign the petition: Hospice Organizations Must NOT be Forced to do Euthanasia (Link). On December 2, I reported that the Delta Hospice Society that operates the Irene Thomas Hospice in Ladner BC, renewed its opposition to euthanasia (MAiD) while supporting excellent care. The Board stated: MAiD is not compatibleContinue reading “Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians: Euthanasia is not consistent with the philosophy, intent or approach of hospice palliative care.”
Terminally ill Ontario man is denied the care that he needs to live.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I have published previous articles (1) (2) (3) (4) about how denying the care that terminally ill people need and the effort to make euthanasia or assisted suicide (MAiD) more available. For instance, Ontario doctors who oppose euthanasia have been ordered to do an effective referral for euthanasia. EffectiveContinue reading “Terminally ill Ontario man is denied the care that he needs to live.”
Canada’s Justice Minister is considering expanding euthanasia to include teenagers and incompetent people.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Canada’s Justice Minister, David Lametti was reported in a Radio Canada interview that he is considering extending euthanasia to teenagers and people who are incompetent but made a previous request. Lametti, who voted against Bill C-14 in 2016 because it didn’t go far enough, has been ordered by PrimeContinue reading “Canada’s Justice Minister is considering expanding euthanasia to include teenagers and incompetent people.”
Forcing Hospices to do Euthanasia in Canada
This article was published by National Review online today. By Wesley J Smith Euthanasia is more than just legal in Canada. It has become a government-guaranteed right. Sign the petition: Hospice Organizations Must NOT be Forced to do Euthanasia (Link). But how to guarantee that the legally qualified who want to die are made dead?Continue reading “Forcing Hospices to do Euthanasia in Canada”
Hastening death isn’t what hospice is about.
This article was published by OneNewsNow on December 16, 2019 Euthanasia proponents in Canada are targeting a hospice program in what is no doubt hoped to be the start of a domino effect. Sign the petition: Hospice Organizations Must NOT be Forced to do Euthanasia (Link). Delta Hospice in British Columbia refuses to kill itsContinue reading “Hastening death isn’t what hospice is about.”
Euthanasia of people with dementia. Medpage “ethics consult”
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Last week, Medpage Today posted an “Ethics Consult” concerning euthanasia of a person with dementia. The consult was based on the euthanasia death of a Dutch woman who requested euthanasia in her advanced directive, but then resisted and said NO at the time of the euthanasia. The physician putContinue reading “Euthanasia of people with dementia. Medpage “ethics consult””
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