Patients’ right to die

Given the means, or without the means Is it a slippery slope from a patient’s right to die to becoming an obligation? Remember Republicans who suggested that people without the means to pay for healthcare might...

Euthanasia and the Right to Die

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"I. Definitions of Types of EuthanasiaEuthanasia, whether in a medical setting (hospital, clinic, hospice) or not (at home) is often erroneously described as "mercy killing". Most forms of euthanasia are,...

C384-Canadian Proposed Euthanasia Bill - A dilemna for Doctors

This fall Bill C-384, which would make physician assisted suicide legal, will come up for second reading in the Canadian Parliament this fall.  This is the furthest such a bill has ever gone in Canada. It is...

Some Obama promises must wait

"'No Child Left Behind,' Gulf Coast revitalization, immigration on back burner“I’ve got a lot on my plate, and it’s very important for us to sequence these big initiatives in a way where they don’t all...

Conservative Sources Spread Death Panel Rumors as Early as 1994

Highlighting the relationship between various Right Wing Conservative sources that vigorously lobbied against health care reform during the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1994, noting some of the same sources...

Scotland to Consider Legalizing Assisted Suicide

Minister of Scottish Parliament Margo MacDonald won cross-party support for presenting a bill to legalize assisted suicide before the Scottish parliament in fall. MacDonald has Parkinson's disease and has announced that she would like the right to die if she so chooses. ...

Mercy Killing: good care or bad law?

Mercy killing is an easy or painless death, or the intentional ending of the life of a person suffering from an incurable or painful disease at his or her request.  Mercy killing is also called euthanasia which is separated into two categories: active euthanasia and...

New documents say PETA killed 95% of adoptable pets in 2008

New documents have arisen that state that PETA killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care in 2008. These documents have been released by the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) and they say that the...

The Ever Rising Health Care Cost, has to be Cut off Now.

By, Uwe Paschen.  The ever rising Health care cost of the Social Democracies such as Japan, Germany, Sweden and to a certain extend even Canada is putting public health care in serious jeopardy. Last week I took...

Four Charged in US 'Final Exit Network' Assisted-Suicide Group

Four people have been charged by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in connection with an assisted-suicide group by the name of Final Exit Network.  The group reportedly helped a man end his life by inhaling helium, and eight other states are also investigating the...

Italy Remains Split on Right-to-Die and Euthanasia

A heated political debate has descended upon Italy after the death of Eluana Englaro, a woman who has become the centre of a fierce battle between goverment, church, and the wishes of her father to remove her life...

'Right-to-Die' Patient Eluana Englaro Dies in Udine, Italy

Eluana Englaro has been in a vegetative state for 17 years, and her father recently secured the right to have her feeding tubes removed, effectively 'euthanizing' her.  Doctors had proven that the 37 year old...

Debate in Italy Over Englaro's Right-To-Die Euthanasia Ruling

The Italian government is intervening in the case of Eluana Englaro, who has been in a vegetative state for 17 years and kept alive through life support machines.  Italian courts granted Englaro's father the right to remove her feeding tubes after doctors proved her coma...

Euthanasia Approved first time in S. Korea

"A Seoul court Friday accepted a family's request to stop treatment for a mother in a vegetative state in a landmark ruling that approved euthanasia for the first time in South Korea. The Seoul Western District Court ordered feeding and ventilator tubes to be removed from...

Euthanasia ok or not? Seriously ill girl allowed to die

It is very simple but genuine querry, can we kill every ill person person. what should be the criteria of illness, demantia, madness, even oldage persons wana dia, can we allow it?"A terminally ill girl has won...

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