Breaking NewsIllinois Bill Would Legalize Assisted Suicide, Targeting Elderly and Disabled People
Chicago Catholic reported that the Conference has called for Catholics to educate themselves about assisted suicide and Church teaching on the issue. The Conference has also urged Catholics to contact their legislators to oppose the bill. Five Times Greater Suicide Risk for Trans, Gender-Diverse Teens in ED
Among 15,413 ED encounters with a suicide screen, the researchers identified 1,126 of these keywords in the EMR, among which 91.2% were classified as referring to a gender-diverse patient. Nearly all of the words were at least 90% effective in identify a gender-diverse youth, Dr. Burnside said, and all of the 197 instances of "they/them" were classified as gender diverse Assisted suicide numbers in Oregon continue to rise
In 1997, Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalise physician-assisted suicide for people with a terminal illness. Since then, numbers have increased year-on-year, and this shows no sign of slowing. Irish Psychiatrist issues warning as physically healthy Dutch and Canadian autistic women are approved for death by euthanasia.
As Ireland debates legalizing euthanasia, a leading psychiatrist issued a warning that the recent case of a physically healthy 28-year-old autistic woman in the Netherlands, and a healthy 27-year-old autistic woman in Canada who have been approved for euthanasia could also become a reality in Ireland if euthanasia is legalized. Euthanasia cases increased by 15% in Belgium in 2023
More than 3,400 Belgians were euthanised in 2023 - a 15% increase over 2022. Statistics released by the Federal Control and Evaluation Commission for Euthanasia reveal that there were 3,423 officially reported deaths -- 3.1 % of all deaths in Belgium. However, the European Institute of Bioethics noted that "scientific studies estimate that about 25 to 35% of unreported cases of euthanasia should be added" to this figure. Catholic Church Condemns Assisted Suicide: "We Uphold the Dignity of All Human Life"
A Catholic diocese in in Canada has issued a comprehensive guide to understanding the Church's teachings on assisted suicide, instructing the faithful "not to take part in it, neither for themselves not with or for another person." 27 year old autistic Alberta woman approved for euthanasia. Her father is challenging the decision in court.
CBC News reported on March 12, 2024 of an Alberta court case concerning a father who has petitioned the court to prevent the euthanasia death of his 27-year-old autistic daughter, who lives at home. The assisted suicide lobby wants to legalize assisted suicide in your state and expand the law later.
In 2024, 20 states are debating (have debated) assisted suicide legalization bills and 4 states are debating assisted suicide law expansion bills. Dutch Doctors are Euthanizing Patients by Starving Them to Death
The euthanasia movement not only promotes lethal injection and assisted suicide but what is known in the death crowd's parlance as VSED, which stands for "voluntary stop eating and drinking." Because starving and dehydrating oneself produces agony, VSED usually requires a doctor's palliative assistance to ameliorate what would be otherwise unbearable suffering that would lead the despairing person to give up the attempt. Dutch Doctors are Euthanizing Patients by Starving Them to Death
The euthanasia movement not only promotes lethal injection and assisted suicide but what is known in the death crowd's parlance as VSED, which stands for "voluntary stop eating and drinking." Because starving and dehydrating oneself produces agony, VSED usually requires a doctor's palliative assistance to ameliorate what would be otherwise unbearable suffering that would lead the despairing person to give up the attempt. More Headlines…
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Ethical Perspectives on Euthanasia/Suicide Michael Cook
The Titanic sank after it collided with an unseen iceberg. Western societies with low birthrates are steaming straight towards an iceberg in broad daylight. But they refuse to change course. The problem is this. As birthrates drop, there are fewer and fewer productive workers and more and more unproductive elderly. The tax burden on the workers grows heavier and heavier. Pension funds will begin to run out of their reserves and benefits will shrink. The iceberg of a pensions crisis looms on the horizon in many countries. And there aren't enough lifeboats. Shenan J. Boquet
Dignitas infinita is receiving considerable attention in the media, due to the fact that it re-affirms long-standing Catholic teaching on certain controversial issues, such as transgenderism, abortion, euthanasia, and surrogacy.
Judie Brown
Insanity is a descriptive adjective meaning a disordered state of mind as well as something that is unreasonable or utterly foolish. While this definition should apply to the wily avengers who stalk the most vulnerable, attempting to convince them that assisted suicide ensures "death with dignity," we see that most folks move on untroubled. This is so because assisted suicide is growing in popularity, which underscores the fact that far too many find it perfectly acceptable to end one's life rather than await the will of God. Ann Farmer
Matthew Parris, a former member of Parliament, is one of the UK's leading commentators. It has been said that his columns in the London Times and The Spectator are "essential reading by many in Westminster". So when he talks complete rubbish about "assisted dying", it's important to put him right. David Albert Jones
What has happened to suicide rates in Victoria since the law came into force in June 2019? Rather than seeing a reduction, there has been an increase in unassisted suicides, and especially among those aged 65 or over. These have increased from 102 in 2018 to 156 in 2022, according to figures from the Victoria Suicide Register. Brian Bird
Much work must be done to restore the proper understanding of personhood - what it means to be human - in societies that permit euthanasia. This work will take not just years, but decades and possibly even longer than that. Michael Cook
Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of "voluntary assisted dying" insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. Michael Cook
Don't imagine that euthanasia's slippery slope is like a long water slide at a theme park in which you hurdle ever downward, ever faster, until you are thrown into a pool. It's more like moving from Duluth to Montreal through the St Lawrence Seaway - you slowly glide along, enter a lock, descend, glide, enter a lock, descend, glide and so on through 15 locks to the Atlantic.
Shenan J. Boquet
Without a concerted effort to face the demographic tsunami that was self-imposed by short-sighted, inhumane policies and propaganda, we may well simply meet evil with additional evil, compounding our guilt, and once again scapegoating the most vulnerable
Louis T. March
It is fascinating to observe a species that is conscious of its impending extinction but also trying to prevent it. Are human beings the only ones capable of self-consciousness? Are radical individualism, hubris and egomania found in other creatures of kingdom Animalia? Judie Brown
This is why it serves us well to turn to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which draws a line in the sand, stating, "Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome can be legitimate; it is the refusal of 'over-zealous' treatment." Judie Brown
To be clear, the ethics of medical practice are failing the most vulnerable people in our midst, be they approaching birth or death. In a macabre situation like that in this nation, you must either safely escape the womb to live or escape the clutches of a killer to die according to God's timeline.
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(The elderly and disabled) ...are very often isolated by their families and by society, which are organized almost exclusively on the basis of criteria of productive efficiency, according to which a hopelessly impaired life no longer has any value.
—Gospel of Life #64
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