Category: Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide

What’s It All About, Alfie?
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What’s It All About, Alfie?

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by on Apr 26, 2018 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Health & Fitness, The Social Order
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For the second time within a year, England has a high-profile case of court-mandated murder of a desperately ill child. The first was Charlie Gard, and now comes Alfie Evans. Alfie missed several developmental milestones in his first seven months of life, which did not alarm physicians at the time. It’s not known precisely what […]

Bioethics 2016: Winners and Losers
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Bioethics 2016: Winners and Losers

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by on Jan 13, 2017 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Reproductive Technology
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Each year at this time we look back over the past twelve months with an eye toward identifying those whose lives and work actively promoted and affirmed a truly human future, and those who did not. Winners: Stephanie Packer is more than a winner; she really is a hero. Sitting down with her while making […]

Light of the Son in a New Dark Age
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Light of the Son in a New Dark Age

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by on Dec 12, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Live in Christ
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How could it have happened in Canada? At the beginning of the 20th Century, we were a Christian nation, but within 100 years we were a secular nation. We now are even seeing social policy that is anti-Christian by design or in its application. Nowhere is this more evident than in how the most vulnerable […]

Euthanasia Movement Sells Assisted Suicide to the Depressed
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Euthanasia Movement Sells Assisted Suicide to the Depressed

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by on Dec 07, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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With all the fluff and noise about the elections, two reports came to my attention recently that may have missed your roving review of the news. We have learned that in the Netherlands the government will kill you at your request, even if what you’re suffering from is alcoholism or depression. One report reveals that […]

Christians in a Culture of Death
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Christians in a Culture of Death

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by on Oct 27, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1984. In the early 1990s a Canadian woman with ALS tried to introduce to Canada a thin edge of a deadly wedge of physician assisted suicide. Sue Rodriguez was an active campaigner from her wheelchair. “Whose body is this anyway?!” she said. I […]

How Faithful Catholics May Use the Law at the End of Life
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How Faithful Catholics May Use the Law at the End of Life

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by on Oct 25, 2016 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Health & Fitness
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The last time I checked, the mortality rate in this country was still 100%. To die usually involves unavoidable suffering. I don’t think these things will be changing any time soon. This is not a cause for anxiety or dread. Christ our Savior has made death and suffering into pathways to eternal life. “Precious in […]

We Must Obey God Rather Than Men
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We Must Obey God Rather Than Men

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by on Sep 15, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Law & Justice
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At the time that I am writing these words 200 Canadians have been euthanized under Canada’s new assisted suicide law. The medical killings begin to mount. One might think the battle to save suicidal sick and disabled people is lost. One Catholic bioethicist stated this defeatism. A May 1st 2016 article appeared in the Catholic […]

World Suicide Prevention Day (But Not for the Sick and Disabled)
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World Suicide Prevention Day (But Not for the Sick and Disabled)

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by on Sep 08, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day! It’s a time to promote suicide prevention for people everywhere — except the sick and disabled. Depending on where they live, they get help killing themselves. In Canada, we now have legal assisted suicide for Canadians “who have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability.” I meet […]

Christian Responses to Medical Killing
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Christian Responses to Medical Killing

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by on Aug 01, 2016 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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A monstrous notion has become law. Assisting in the suicides of sick and disabled Canadians is legally permitted. It is now a new right — the right to death. The pied pipers of this new right use misleading euphemisms such as medical assistance in dying (MAID). A more accurate, precise and honest description of this […]

California’s Assisted Suicide Law: Are Some Lives Not Worth Living, or are All Lives Precious?
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California’s Assisted Suicide Law: Are Some Lives Not Worth Living, or are All Lives Precious?

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by on Jul 08, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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At what point can we say that a life no longer matters? Is it at the point when medical expenses become too costly or burdensome for relatives? Is it at the point when someone feels they have outlived their usefulness, or are just not able to do the things they love to do anymore? For […]

Many California Docs Say No to Assisted Suicide!
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Many California Docs Say No to Assisted Suicide!

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by on Jun 21, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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This past October, California governor Jerry Brown signed an assisted suicide law making it legal in the state for “physicians to provide lethal prescriptions to mentally competent adults who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and face the expectation that they will die within six months.” However, not all medical professionals and hospitals agree […]

Movie Review: <em>Me Before You</em>
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Movie Review: Me Before You

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by on Jun 15, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, On TV and Movies
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WARNING: I TELL YOU THE END OF THE FILM IN THE NEXT SENTENCE. Due to the serious subject matter of the film Me Before You (euthanasia), and the fact that most people already know how the movie ends (euthanasia), combined with the fact that the film is based on a novel by the same name […]

<em>Me Before You</em> and the Slow Suicide of the West
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Me Before You and the Slow Suicide of the West

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by on Jun 01, 2016 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, On TV and Movies
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Sometimes movie spoilers are a welcome thing. Several months ago I saw a trailer for the movie Me Before You and got a little excited. A modern romance featuring a disabled main character. It looked so positive and promising. I should have known better. Apparently Me Before You, which hits theaters this weekend, was a […]

Assisted Suicide: Canada's Deadly Shifting Landscape
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Assisted Suicide: Canada’s Deadly Shifting Landscape

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by on Apr 15, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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Canadian legal landscape is shifting. On April 14th 2016, Canada’s Liberal government introduced for 1st reading it’s assisted suicide legislation.[1] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau initially said he was going to whip his majority government into supporting the bill for state-sanctioned assisted suicide. Unnamed sources informed me he was faced with a potential Caucus revolt […]

Canada’s Demand for Death
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Canada’s Demand for Death

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by on Mar 30, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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I spent this past weekend in Montreal, Canada, where despite the expected joie de vivre that Francophone cultures are prone to celebrate, the province of Quebec seems to be spending more time and energy focused on death rather than life. Last year the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the country’s ban on physician assisted suicide […]

"Progressives" on the Value of Life
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“Progressives” on the Value of Life

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by on Mar 24, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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Within certain media and academic circles the term “progressive” is used to describe policy makers and politicians who promote agendas typically attributed to liberal causes. It’s a curious description that is used to cast a positive light on favored or fashionable ideological perspective.   Conservative views are often described with derogatory labels such as right-wing (or even […]

Assisted Suicide: An American State of Mind
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Assisted Suicide: An American State of Mind

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by on Feb 25, 2016 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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Billy Joel’s delightful song “New York State of Mind” begins with the words “Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood.” The song reflects on being home, accepting reality, and getting over the desire to get away. That’s what I like the most about it because the “neighborhood” is our community, our […]

“Much Ado About Nothing?” Ben Carson on Starving Terri Schiavo.
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“Much Ado About Nothing?” Ben Carson on Starving Terri Schiavo.

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by on Nov 17, 2015 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Government & Politics
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Presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, was recently quoted in the Washington Post  regarding the starvation death undergone by the severely brain injured (and NOT brain dead) Teri Schiavo, “We face those kinds of issues all the time and while I don’t believe in euthanasia, you have to recognize that people that are in that condition do have a […]

Physician Assisted Suicide Undermines Efforts to Reduce Suicide
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Physician Assisted Suicide Undermines Efforts to Reduce Suicide

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by on Nov 10, 2015 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Those in Need
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Last week’s New York Times featured a haunting portrayal of suicide in America. Across the nation, suicide rates are on the rise—particularly among rural adolescents. But, as the article highlights, “suicide is a threat not just to the young. Rates over all rose 7 percent in metropolitan counties from 2004 to 2013, according to the […]

Faith in Suffering: Kristi's Gift to All of Us
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Faith in Suffering: Kristi’s Gift to All of Us

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by on Oct 28, 2015 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, The Feminine Genius, Women
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I crawled into the bed with Kristi and we lay together all afternoon talking and laughing. We talked about everything under the sun: our childhoods, our hopes and dreams, our disappointments, homeschooling, our faith, our husbands, our children, and her cancer. It’s been a year ago already and I can remember everything about that day. […]

Suicidal "Dignity"
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Suicidal “Dignity”

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by on Oct 28, 2015 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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The secular progressive tactic of advocating death in the name of liberty continues, this time in the state of California, where Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide in that state. This makes California the fourth state to embrace the practice, after Oregon, Washington, and Vermont. Commenting on his decision to sign […]

The Deadly Fruit of Brittany Maynard’s “Private” Choice
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The Deadly Fruit of Brittany Maynard’s “Private” Choice

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by on Oct 23, 2015 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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29 year old Brittany Maynard made headlines last year for announcing her decision to end her life with doctor-prescribed suicide after being diagnosed with brain cancer. A Californian, she was, in her own words, “forced” to move to Oregon to exercise her “right to die” because of California’s ban on assisted suicide. At the time, […]

Idolatry of Self Threatens All We Once Held Dear
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Idolatry of Self Threatens All We Once Held Dear

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by on Sep 16, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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Every abortion in Canada is paid for with our tax dollars (without our consent or any public consensus). It is a moral outrage! Then in late July 2015, the abortion pill RU-486 was quietly approved by Health Canada. Although women will need a prescription to obtain it, a whole new phase of early abortion is about […]

Supreme Courts Are Usurping Democracy
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Supreme Courts Are Usurping Democracy

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by on Sep 02, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Law & Justice
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Canada is about to embark upon an audacious social course. We must accept the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to strike down laws prohibiting assisted suicide of the sick, disabled and depressed. It is a departure from our legal foundations in British Common Law that have — for more than 700 years — forbidden or punished […]