Swiss prisoner convicted of child rape is being considered for assisted suicide.

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Peter Vogt A Swiss prisoner convicted of sexual assault and rape of girls and woman ranging in age from 10 to 56 is being considered for death by assisted suicide. An AFP news article by Agnès Pedrero reported that Peter Vogt (69) who has been diagnosed with severalContinue reading “Swiss prisoner convicted of child rape is being considered for assisted suicide.”

Prolonged painful assisted suicide deaths and human experiments with new lethal drugs cocktails

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An article published in the Spring Hill Insider yesterday looks at experiments being done on people to find an effective lethal drug cocktail for assisted suicide.  The current drug cocktails have caused painful assisted suicide deaths that may take many hours to die. The article states that assisted suicideContinue reading “Prolonged painful assisted suicide deaths and human experiments with new lethal drugs cocktails”

Assisted suicide: There are no best practices, it is unethical for physicians to participate.

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On October 1, 2019, the Psychiatric Times published an interview with Dr Madelyn Hicks, a psychiatrist affiliated with the University of Massachusetts.  Hicks is asked about “best practises” in states where assisted suicide has been legalized. Her response is insightful. Here is how she responds: I understand and appreciateContinue reading “Assisted suicide: There are no best practices, it is unethical for physicians to participate.”

Suicide promotion websites linked to euthanasia activist.

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia activist, Philip Nitschke, has been selling suicide information, devices and drugs, online, for years.A recent article published by The Sun newspaper concerns school kids buying, online, lethal death row drugs to die by suicide. This is not only a phenomenon in the UK but it is a world-wideContinue reading “Suicide promotion websites linked to euthanasia activist.”

What’s Cruel for the Incarcerated is Cruel for the Terminally Ill: The Connection between Lethal Injection and Assisted Suicide

This article was originally published on May 21 by Consistent Life. by Jacqueline H. Abernathy, Ph.D., MSSW Jacqueline Abernathy In a recent episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, comedian and host John Oliver offered a scathing (albeit profane) rebuke of lethal injection as a means of execution in U.S. states with capital punishment. He detailedContinue reading “What’s Cruel for the Incarcerated is Cruel for the Terminally Ill: The Connection between Lethal Injection and Assisted Suicide”

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