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Here’s a link to an excellent article: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2013/10/euthanasia-putting-elderly-at-risk.html.  Though written in opposition to the proposed euthanasia law in Quebec, the points it makes are just as valid for assisted suicide. The elderly and the very sick require a lot of care, sometimes trying caregivers to the point of exhaustion and exasperation.  Making care-giving easier by […]

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In Belgium, where euthanasia has been legal since 2002, the Parliament is now discussing whether children as young as twelve should be able to choose to have their lives ended this way: http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/10419 It’s more than a little frightening to know that the slippery slope to the current situation in Belgium began long before euthanasia […]

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A disagreement has arisen in Germany over assisted suicide laws. During a discussion of how to implement a previous agreement by the coalition government to ban commercial assisted suicide, the country’s libertarian justice minister has proposed that the law exempt from prosecution any person or group offering “profit-free” assistance in suicide to a terminally ill […]

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