Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Euthanasia on the Isle of Man The regional government of the Isle of Man – the Tynwald – is giving a second reading to …
Assisted dying, especially for those in physical pain, should be legal, argues Lionel Shriver in UnHerd. But Canada's liberal approach has gone too far.
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Soon after taking the shot, 41-year-old Pavelek was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) that can confine people to their beds. She posted a letter that said that she did not have the strength to continue living, that breathing had become difficult, and she decided to end her life.
Canada leads; will the world follow blindly into an inhumane dystopia where the most neglected and abused among us will be exterminated as the world is distracted by perpetual wars, famine and plagues?
Rosemary Frei, via her website The cadence is increasing of jurisdictions introducing, normalizing and expanding laws allowing doctors to help people commit suicide. Is this purely in the service of relieving unbearable physical or mental suffering? Or do other factors predominate? I used to believe the former, but my recent re-examination of the issue suggests …
Suicide is now the United States’ 10th leading cause of death. It is also one of only three causes of death in the US that are increasing (Alzheimer’s disease and drug overdose are the other two).
A terminally-ill 17-year-old in Belgium has been granted the right to an assisted suicide. The federal commission on euthanasia stated that the unnamed minor was suffering from severe and unbearable pain before granting them the right to end his/her life. This is the first minor to be granted permission since the government decided that age restriction was no longer relevant for assisted euthanasia. The death of the minor was confirmed on Saturday.
In order for the minor to go ahead with the decision, the teenager’s parents had to grant permission.
