Canada: Assisted Suicide for Girl With Autism and ADHD?
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Hotair ^
| 03/27/24 | David Strom
I have always understood and sympathized with the argument for assisted suicide for people facing terminal disease near the end of life. I
think hospice care is the appropriate path, but most people can at least understand the impulse to ease the path for a suffering loved one. But I have also feared that the slippery slope would lead us to this point: assisted suicide for anyone at any time for any reason. And, eventually, outright medical murder, as happens in some Nordic countries where doctors sometimes decide for patients without consent. Canada is at the second stage after legalizing...
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Colorado’s Assisted Suicide Bill Would Invite Out-Of-Staters To End Their Lives In Two Days Or Less
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the Federalist ^
| 2-13-24 | DR. DAVID MURPHY
Canadian lawmakers recently introduced legislation to delay a planned expansion of their Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program for three years. Without
this delay, the rapidly increasing Canadian suicide rates will explode as those suffering from mental health conditions will be allowed to commit suicide with the help of a medical professional. Not to be outdone, some Colorado legislators seem eager to expand the culture of death outside the womb and constitutionally enshrine a nonexistent “right” to death inside the womb. They are making the expansion of death a “hill to die on.” House and Senate legislators have introduced the...
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Controversial Washington bill said to force religious hospitals to take part in assisted suicide
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Live Action News ^
| January 17, 2024 | Cassy Fiano-Chesser
A bill has been introduced in the state of Washington which would force hospitals, including religious institutions, to commit assisted suicide. House
Bill 1035 requires that “[a] health care entity may not discharge, demote, suspend, discipline, or otherwise discriminate against a health care provider” for committing assisted suicide. As Alex Schadenberg noted, “The assisted suicide lobby wants to remove the right of religiously affiliated healthcare institutions from prohibiting medical practitioners from participating in assisted suicide.” This bill is in addition to one last year, which already expanded assisted suicide to allow non-physicians to commit it, shortened the waiting period, and...
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Report reveals Vermont assisted suicide deaths quadrupled over two-year period
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Live Action News ^
| January 8, 2024 | Bridget Sielicki
A recently released report from the Vermont Department of Health indicates that the number of assisted suicide deaths in the state has more than quadrupled in the last two years. Per
the report, there were 84 “reportable events” between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2023, though the report later clarifies that 72 of those 85 were actually via assisted suicide, while the other deaths were caused by the underlying disease or another cause. Seventy-three percent (73%) of the people who chose assisted suicide did so because they had cancer. In contrast, the state’s previous report issued in January 2022...
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We Must Defeat Bills in 10 States to Legalize Assisted Suicide
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Life News ^
| January 9, 2024 | Alex Schadenberg
Assisted suicide bills have currently been introduced in 10 US states including: Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. We expect several more states to introduce an assisted suicide bill in 2024. Some
of the assisted suicide bills are being debated in states that are not likely to legalized assisted suicide, while other states are more concerning. All of these bills should be treated seriously No new state has legalized assisted suicide in the past two years but the assisted suicide lobby remains relectless. The assisted suicide lobby has failed to legalize assisted suicide in...
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80% of Dutch support expanding assisted suicide for people even without terminal illnesses: poll
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Christian Post ^
| 11/18/2023 | Michael Gryboski
The vast majority of people living in the Netherlands support expanding assisted suicide for older citizens who are not facing a serious or life-threatening illness.The English-language Dutch news outlet NL Times reported last week that a recent poll conducted by Kieskompas of nearly 200,000 people found that 80% of the Dutch supported
enabling elderly people who feel they've reached the end of their lives to obtain assisted suicide. In other words, a supermajority of respondents favor allowing assisted suicide regardless of whether the person requesting it is terminally ill. While a supermajority said they support expanding assisted suicide, 10% of...
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Assisted suicide made up 4% of all deaths in Canada in 2022
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True North ^
| 10/26/2023 | Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
Health Canada’s latest findings that assisted suicide made up 4% of all deaths in Canada has raised alarm among various groups and experts who are calling for more comprehensive palliative care options and a reconsideration of expanding eligibility for euthanasia. Health
Canada released its fourth annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada Wednesday, revealing that assisted suicide accounted for 4.1% of all deaths in the country during the past year, marking a substantial increase from previous years. In 2022, there were 13,241 Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) deaths reported, reflecting a staggering 31.2% growth rate compared to the...
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Canadian hospital offers assisted suicide to woman seeking help for suicidal thoughts
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Christian Post ^
| 08/28/2023 | Samantha Kamman
A woman who sought psychiatric help at a hospital in Canada said staff made her feel “worthless” by suggesting she end her life through the national healthcare system's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program as the country seeks to expand eligibility to people suffering from mental illnesses. Kathrin
Mentler, 37, went to the Vancouver General Hospital’s Access and Assessment Centre in June, hoping to check herself in to protect herself from acting on her suicidal thoughts. During her assessment, the staff informed the Mentler that there were no beds available and that she should expect to wait a long time...
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California's doctor-assisted deaths surged 63% to 853 last year: critics say state law is unconstitutional, has made it too easy to get lethal drugs, and 'steers' disabled people to suicide
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UK Daily Mail ^
| 08/15/2023 | James Reinl
Record numbers of people ended their lives in California last year in America's biggest doctor-assisted suicide program, after lawmakers made it easier for residents to get their hands on lethal drugs. Last
year, 1,270 people got fatal prescriptions under the state's End of Life Option Act (ELOA), and 853 people used them to end their lives, the California Department of Public Health said in its annual report. That's a jump from 863 scripts and 522 deaths the previous year. The data come amid growing concerns that California, Oregon, and other US states are liberalizing their assisted-suicide programs too quickly and...
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Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Program Set to Take Another ‘Prudent’ Step on Road to Perdition (sort of already here in America as “comfort care”)
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Daily Signal ^
| July 19, 2023 | Jarrett Stepman
The literal suicide of the West continues apace in Canada.Starting in March 2024, people with mental illness will be able to avail themselves of medically assisted suicide.That represents the latest expansion in the Medical Assistance in Dying, or “MAID,” law that launched in 2016. Some
Canadians are getting ready to take advantage of the forthcoming law.On Saturday, Reuters reported how a 47-year-old woman with anorexia will be allowed to kill herself with state assistance next year when the law changes.“Every day is hell,” Lisa Pauli said. “I’m so tired. I’m done. I’ve tried everything. I feel like I’ve lived my...
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Tragic: 'The Mindy Project' Star Dies By ASSISTED SUICIDE Following COVID-19 Booster 'Illness'
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Radar Online via MSN ^
| 3-Jul-23 | Connor Surmonte
Model and actress Katerina Pavelek recently died by assisted suicide after she was diagnosed with an incurable and chronic neurological illness that she claimed was a result of the COVID-19 booster shot she received last year, RadarOnline.com has learned. Pavelek,
41, ended her life at an assisted suicide clinic in Basel, Switzerland on June 17. The model and actress, who appeared in the popular television series The Mindy Projectas well as the films Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Fool’s Paradise, was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) shortly before she decided to end her life earlier this...
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Model Dies By Assisted Suicide After Battling With Covid-19 Booster Injuries
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Evie Magazine ^
| June 29, 2023 | Nicole Dominique
Model and actress Katerina Pavelek, 41, received her Covid-19 booster shot over a year ago. Like
most people, Pavelek thought the jab would improve her immune system – instead, it did the opposite, and she suffered heavily as a result. Pavelek was diagnosed with an incurable chronic neurological illness known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a long-term illness with a wide range of symptoms that affects daily activities. At times, this condition may confine people to their beds. ME/CFS can worsen if individuals with this illness overwork themselves. The model was also suspected to have respiratory ALS, a neurodegenerative...
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Claim: Assisted Suicide Becomes 3rd Leading Cause of Death in Quebec — 7% of All Deaths
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Breitbart ^
| 06/08/2023 | Simon Kent
Canada looks set to face another record-shattering year of euthanasia deaths in 2023 after a reported 35 percent rise to some 13,500 state-sponsored suicides in 2022, an analysis of official data shows. Regional
health chiefs won’t release their formal tally for some weeks, but data from Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, and Nova Scotia already show steep rises in euthanasia deaths last year right across Justin Trudeau’s Canada, the Daily Mail reports. The data claim was shared with the outlet.
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Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo Vetoes Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide
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Life News ^
| June 6, 2023 | Micaiah Bilger
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed a bill to legalize assisted suicide Monday, saying there are better options for suffering patients than killing them. The
anti-life legislation, state Senate Bill 239, would have allowed doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to patients diagnosed with a terminal condition to commit suicide. The bill passed the state Senate by one vote in April and the Assembly by four votes in May. It appears unlikely that the Democrat-controlled legislature has enough votes to override the governor’s veto. In his veto message, Lombardo said he did not feel comfortable signing a bill to legalize the killing...
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California Backs Down on Forcing Doctors to Participate in Assisted Suicide in Pro-Life Victory
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LifeSite News ^
| 5/18/23 | Calvin Freiburger
'Our clients seek to live out their faith in their medical practice, and that includes valuing every human life entrusted to their care.'(LifeSiteNews) — California has backed down on enforcing a law requiring medical practitioners to participate in physician-assisted suicides against their will and has agreed to pay $300,000 to the Christian
medical professionals who took the state to court. California legalized assisted suicide in 2015 with the End of Life Option Act, under which physicians were able to opt out of participation in, and could not be punished for, “refusing to inform” a patient about his “right” to assisted...
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Vermont Rewrites Law to Offer Assisted Suicide to Non-Residents
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Catholic News Agency ^
| 5/3/23 | Joe Bukuras
Boston, Mass., May 3, 2023 / 13:30 pm Republican Gov. Phil Scott of Vermont signed a bill Tuesday allowing non-residents to avail themselves of the state’s assisted suicide law. Vermont
legalized assisted suicide in 2013, but with this new law became the first state in the nation to change its legislation to allow the life-ending procedure to those living out of state, according to the Associated Press. Oregon stopped enforcing its residency requirement for assisted suicide in 2022 but has not enshrined that provision in law. Earlier this year Vermont reached a settlement with a Connecticut woman who had sued...
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Vermont allows out-of-staters to use assisted suicide law
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ap ^
| 5/2/2023 | Lisa Rathke
Vermont on Tuesday became the first state in the country to change its medically assisted suicide law to allow terminally ill people from out of state to take advantage of it to end their lives. Republican
Gov. Phil Scott signed the bill that removes the residency requirement for the decades-old law. Last year in a court settlement, Oregon agreed to stop enforcing the residency requirement of its law allowing terminally ill people to receive lethal medication. It also agreed to ask the Legislature to remove it from the law. ... Patients routinely travel to other states to utilize the best...
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Pontifical Academy for Life Tries to Clarify Abp. Paglia’s Troubling Assisted Suicide Comments
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LifeSite News ^
| 4/24/23 | Michael Haynes
The Academy for Life has issued a statement that still appeared to defend how a 'legal' route could permit euthanasia.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has been forced to issue a new statement after he delivered public comments supporting euthanasia last week. “Archbishop
Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, reiterates his ‘no’ towards euthanasia and assisted suicide, in full adherence to the Magisterium,” reads an April 24 press release from the Academy for Life (PAV). The official English translation is found here. BackgroundThe statement was issued after news broke...
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[Catholic Caucus] Assisted suicide: Paglia's OK destroys Magisterium
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Daily Compass ^
| April 23, 2023 | Tommaso Scandroglio
[Catholic Caucus] Assisted suicide: Paglia's OK destroys MagisteriumThe president of the Pontifical Academy for Life Vincenzo Paglia has given his OK to the assisted suicide law from the columns of Renzi's newspaper Il Riformista. In a plethora of heresies and leaning on the liberalist drifts of current social conditions and widespread pluralism,
the bishop openly contradicts the Magisterium and the pronouncements of the Italian Bishops' Conference, even going so far as to say that the Church does not own the truth on these issues.Bishop Paglia is open to the assisted suicide law” read the front page of Il Riformista [The...
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[Catholic Caucus] The President of the Pontifical Academy for Life: "Personally I would not practice assisted suicide, but..."
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Rorate Caeli ^
| April 23, 2023 | Matthew Hazell
[Catholic Caucus] The President of the Pontifical Academy for Life: "Personally I would not practice assisted suicide, but..."It is pretty safe to say that, since its "reform" in late 2016, the Pontifical Academy for Life has become a withered husk of its former self, embroiled in controversy after controversy under its current
president, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia - from damaging statements on abortion, to suggestions that the Church's teaching on contraception in Humanae vitae is "reformable", to some of its members (even the 'Catholic' ones!) being openly against Church teaching on life issues. Perhaps, then, it should not come as too...
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