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Friday, November 23, 2018
New Zealand: From Scammers to Euthanasia Advocates, These Are Dark Days in Old Ladydom
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OPINION: These are perilous times for tottering toward old ladydom. The women's mags cut your life support at 50 unless you're Helen Mirren, sooner if you're not, in which case you might as well sign up for the Philip Nitschke death machine, with optional funeral casket.
Monday, November 19, 2018
Friday, November 16, 2018
Proposed Federal Palliative Care Act Is a Springing Euthanasia Bill
In 2012, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that many doctors object to physician-assisted suicide.[1] The article's authors, Dr. Lisa Lehmann and Julian Prokopetz, argued back that assisted deaths need not be physician-assisted.[2] They said that a central government mechanism should provide the assistance instead:
We envision the development of a central state or federal mechanism to confirm the authenticity and eligibility of patients' requests, dispense medication [the lethal dose], and monitor demand and use.[3]
Monday, November 12, 2018
Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Counseling Suicide to Obtain Life Insurance
Justice Peter Davis |
“However, one can imagine many circumstances arising where people in positions of trust and responsibility could succumb to the temptation to counsel suicide for personal gain.”
By Hope Australia
These confronting words were spoken last week by Justice Davis in the Supreme Court of Queensland, as he sentenced Graham Robert Morant to 10 years imprisonment for counselling his wife to commit suicide.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Virginia: Legislative Panel Punts on Assisted Suicide-Euthanasia Proposal
Del. Scott Garrett, MD |
By Katie O' Connor, Virginia Mercury
A group of lawmakers shot down proposals to allow medical-aid-in-dying, also known as physician-assisted suicide [and euthanasia], in Virginia on Wednesday in a review of a series of legislative recommendations on health care.
Del. Kaye Kory, D-Fairfax, requested that the Joint Commission on Health Care study the medical-aid-in-dying debate, in which a patient with less than six months to live obtains lethal drugs through a physician to end his or her life.
Monday, November 5, 2018
Australia: Husband Who Aided Wife's Suicide to Obtain Her Life Insurance Sentenced to Prison
Graham Morant, AAP Dan Peled |
Graham Robert Morant was last month found guilty on two charges — counselling suicide and aiding suicide — for persuading his wife Jennifer Morant, 56, to kill herself in her car in 2014 and helping her buy the necessary equipment from a hardware store.
The court heard Morant was the sole beneficiary of Ms Morant's three life insurance policies, which Justice Peter Davis concluded was the motivation for his actions.
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