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...
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,...
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...
"'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...
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...
created by Karen Hatter | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 643 views | 37 recommendations | 8 comments
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. ...
created by Alyzee | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 241 views | 36 recommendations | 4 comments
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...
opinion by tya22 | 3 years ago 4724 views | 8 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 400 views | 63 recommendations | 9 comments
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...
opinion by Uwe Paschen | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1727 views | 70 recommendations | 20 comments
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...
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...
created by Terri Potratz | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 247 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
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...
created by Terri Potratz | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 394 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by Terri Potratz | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 143 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"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...
opinion by talentedchimp | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 740 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
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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