euthanasia

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/teens/noa-pothoven-of-arnhem-in-the-netherlands-is-legally-euthanised/news-story/10b49ca69733eaa11b66e1b1b8e215a1 Noa Pothoven, 17, has been legally euthanised in the Netherlands, saying the pain she was dealing with after a childhood rape was...

On February 13, 2014, Belgium legalized euthanasia by lethal injection for children. By a vote of 86 to 44 with 12 abstentions, the lower house of Parliament approved the law which had previously been passed by the country’s Senate. Young children will be allowed to end their lives with the...

Dutch Outraged Over Santorum's Euthanasia Claim Here's his frothy claim: Are old people in the Netherlands afraid to go to the hospital because they might be involuntarily euthanized? Santorum really is doing a good job of living up to the alternative meaning of his name. And all the...

I watched this documentary a while back and it changed my life forever: (warning, it's about a "suicide tourist", and it frightened me more than it was just sad...and it was pretty darn sad.) http://video.pbs.org/video/1430431984/ I was left with a profound conviction that strong doses of...

Terry Practchet is delivering a lecture on the subject tonight: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/01/terry-pratchett-euthanasia-tribunals I'm absolutely for this - with sufficient safeguards of course. Perhaps only for people with a terminal/degenerative illness like end stage...

Why do states tend to be so reactionary regarding "right to die" issues? We all watched with disgust the posturing of our social critics and legislators over the Terri Schaivo episode, and earlier but similar cases as well. They are going through much the same sort of thing in Italy; they...

Agree or disagree with euthanasia, it's pretty hard not to admire Paula Westoby of Dunedin. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10547569 Go you good thing! :bigclap

Can't really say much about this at the moment. I know this bloke and wasn't aware of what had happened until today. Life sucks, you watch your mum screaming in pain, then you go to jail for murder*. *I cannot see any other result, going by NZ's laws and recent precedent.

So, let’s say a person has advanced-stage Alzheimer’s disease, a Brain Tumour, or another disease that makes them mentally incompetent, such that they need total care and are unaware of their surroundings. Perhaps they have expressed a wish to hasten their demise, or to go on to the bitter end...

Okay, you know how some people are "pro-life" cuz they don't want babies to be aborted...but the Left always criticizes them cuz many of the same people also support the Death Penalty so they aren't being "fully pro-life"... Well I was wondering. I was thinking about my personal stances and I...

There was a recent uproar by Singapore students about religious groups insinuating their agenda into secular sex-ed programmes. These groups then preach the immorality of contraception, abortion, pre-marital sex, IVF and embryonic stem cells research. Today, a doctor wrote in to the press in...

Yes, another NO thread. I couldn't find an existing thread that this fit into. According to an article on Scotsman.com a 380 pound man was euthanized by a doctor since they felt they couldn't get him downstairs to the rescue area. Now assuming this story is true--doesn't euthanasia seem...

Given some horrible ways to die in hospitals (reminds me torture in the dark ages), and the possibility of having an honorable way out of this world, I would like to see that euthanasia was approved and widely spread. I want to die in my house, with my family and loved friends, with dignity...

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/world/9890729.htm

Euthanasia, which according to my dictionary is “the act or practice of putting painlessly to death, esp, in cases of incurable suffering”. We (in the UK) every couple of years get high profile media cases of people who want to have their life ended when the suffering becomes too acute but...

I heard this rumor that Lurch with solve the health care crisis by offering humane euthanasia to the elderly, and they would be encouraged to accept. It's known that a large percentage of health care costs are expended in the last six months of life, and this would significantly reduce...

It seems that "Free Inquiry" magazine had gone completely off its rocker. In their latest issue, among articles about enlightment, humaneness, reason, etc., etc., etc., an article by a certain Barbara Smoker, who is advocating infant euthanasia. No, that's not a misprint. Look it up...