The Guardian, a progressive, left-leaning newspaper in England, reported recently that Japan’s Minister of Finance thinks elderly people should “hurry up and die”, to relieve pressure on the government to pay for their medical care: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese Despite the pro-suicide camp's tactics of promoting this legislation in … [Read more...] about
Slippery Slope
“It will quite literally be easier to get a lethal prescription in Massachusetts than to have hospice care through the end of your life.”
Ira Byock, director of palliative care at Dartmouth, has spoken out again against assisted suicide in Massachusetts (http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/10/paliiative-care-assisted-suicide#more-23626). In a guest post on CommonHealth, the health blog of Boston radio station WBUR, he writes: We’ll still require terminally ill patients to give up treatment for their disease … [Read more...] about “It will quite literally be easier to get a lethal prescription in Massachusetts than to have hospice care through the end of your life.”
Death from Euthanasia Rises in the Netherlands
Anyone who doubts the "slippery slope" argument against legalized suicide may be interested to know that nearly 3 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands, where euthanasia was legalized in 2002, now occur as the result of euthanasia. CatholicCulture.org reports (Oct 9, 2012) that the number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands rose by 18% from 2010 to 2011. According to … [Read more...] about Death from Euthanasia Rises in the Netherlands