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Post Tagged 'assisted suicide'

September 17, 2025

Assisted Dying in the UK: Let’s Win the Argument on Principle

The House of Lords, with its resplendent red leather benches, a throne for the monarch at the state opening of Parliament, a rather uncomfortable-looking cushion seat (known as “the Woolsack”) from which the Speaker of the House presides over proceedings, and a host of history, architecture, and traditions, is a unique feature of the British constitution. Continue Reading...
February 04, 2025

Assisted Dying in the U.K.: The End of Compassion?

There is a real prospect that assisted dying (or to be somewhat more transparent, assisted suicide) will become law in the United Kingdom in 2025. In October 2024, Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Kim Leadbeater introduced the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Continue Reading...
January 26, 2024

St. Augustine Speaks to the Suicide of a Civilization

Americans are killing themselves in record numbers. According to a study published in August by the Kaiser Family Foundation, between 2011 and 2022, more than half a million lives were lost to suicide, with 2022 showing the highest number of deaths on record, an increase of 16%. Continue Reading...
February 02, 2023

MAID in Canada

“You know what your life is worth to you. And mine is worthless,” said Mitchell Tremblay, a 40-year-old Canadian man battling severe mental illness and intent on using his country’s medical suicide program to end his life as soon as possible. Continue Reading...
June 03, 2007

Paging Dr. Kevorkian

The pro-assisted suicide movement always couches its argument in terms of “compassion” and “choice,” downplays the word “suicide,” and breezily dismiss any counter arguments about the (very real) slippery slope that will accompany the legalization of the practice. Continue Reading...
June 01, 2007

Death With Dignity, Redux

Assisted suicide crusader Dr. Jack Kevorkian is out of prison as of this morning. For a good recap on who Kevorkian is, what he proposes for society, and just how creepy the man really is, I encourage you to check out Wesley Smith’s article at National Review Online. Continue Reading...