Search results for "assisted suicide compassionate"
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2.1KInternationalSuicide rates among the ill are being used to demand assisted suicide
A new study in the United Kingdom has revealed a 2.5 percent higher suicide risk among people battling terminal cancer, as well...
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2.4KInternationalPro-euthanasia group wants to force religious medical facilities to commit assisted suicide
The pro-euthanasia group Dying with Dignity Canada is demanding an end to religious exemptions that allow medical facilities with a religious affiliation...
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1.4KIssuesVermont lawmakers push to loosen assisted suicide safeguards
Pro-assisted suicide Vermont lawmakers are working to loosen the state’s assisted suicide law by removing some of the safeguards currently in place....
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3.7KInternationalNova Scotia to allow self-administered assisted suicide option
“First, do no harm.” This popular principle reminds health care professionals of their duty to consider the ethical implications of what they...
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1.7KIssuesPro-assisted suicide websites are teaching millions how to kill themselves
Assisted suicide and euthanasia have been touted as dignified ways for people who are terminally ill or profoundly suffering to take their...
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1.7KAnalysisDespite claims to the contrary, assisted death is suicide and it is a tragedy
As the call to make assisted suicide legal in the United Kingdom gains popularity, one advocate is publicly making the claim that...
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1.6KInternationalEuthanasia, assisted suicide one step closer to legalization in Portugal
Portugal’s Parliament has approved a revised version of a bill that would legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill or seriously...
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1.4KInternationalScotland proposal hails cost benefits of assisted suicide while allowing Zoom consultations
A new proposal would allow Scottish citizens who live in rural areas to have their requests for assisted suicide approved over Zoom....
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1.1KInternationalAssisted suicide proposal fails to proceed in Ireland’s legislature
A proposal to allow physician-assisted suicide has failed for the second time in Ireland’s legislature. According to Newstalk, the Justice Department has...
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2.4KIssuesFour psychiatrists speak out against assisted suicide: Legal doesn’t mean ethical
When it comes to assisted suicide, some doctors are reminding us that legal doesn’t always mean ethical. In an article in Psychiatric...
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1.4KInternationalScotland to consider legalizing physician-assisted suicide
UPDATE, 7/6/21: A Scottish physician group, Our Duty of Care, has sent a letter to signed a letter to Health Secretary Humza Yousaf...
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2.7KAnalysisCanada faces pushback over expanding assisted suicide for those with mental illness
Canada’s ever-accelerating expansion of physician-assisted suicide gained significant momentum with the government’s March 2021 decision to allow mental illness as a qualifying...
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2.4KAnalysisShock claim: Assisted suicide is needed so women won’t have ‘burden’ of caring for the sick
The assisted suicide lobby has long argued that doctors should be able to kill their patients so people can avoid what they...
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2.5KHuman RightsConnecticut lawmakers introduce assisted suicide bill again
According to the Hartford Courant, Connecticut lawmakers will again introduce an assisted suicide bill despite multiple failures to pass similar legislation beginning...
