Canada made a dark choice in 2016. Instead of investing in more care, support, and hope for people who are suffering, the Canadian government legalized assisted suicide through a program called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). From the beginning, it was presented...
Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program was first presented as a last resort for adults suffering from severe and irreversible medical conditions. This policy treated suffering people as if death were the solution instead of care and support. Now, the...
Assisted suicide is moving into nursing homes and hospitals in Lucerne, Switzerland. Previous protections banned this practice; however, supporters fought it in the name of “self-determination.” Lucerne parliament member Sara Muff introduced a plan arguing that people...
Kristin is a wife, mother, and veteran of the US Air Force, who was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. What followed was not just a battle against disease, but a fight for her very dignity. Living in Canada, Kristin says doctors told her her only option was...
The story of Noelia Castillo Ramos is one of the most heartbreaking and unsettling assisted suicide and organ donation cases in recent years, and it forces us to take a closer look at death as an answer to suffering. Noelia was only 25 years old. She had endured...
A recent TikTok shared a heartbreaking story. A young woman described her grandmother’s final moments before undergoing physician-assisted suicide. In her last five minutes, her grandmother began to panic. She asked where she would sleep that night. Trying to comfort...
A Texas man has died after he and his ex-wife reportedly worked together to plan and carry out his suicide. Joseph Cheffo was found dead in his Odessa home on February 13. Though assisted suicide is illegal in Texas, authorities allege that his ex-wife and primary...
The pro-death movement has worked tirelessly to expand access to euthanasia. The right to Life is not only attacked from the beginning of life but also at the end. Many regions, including America, have seen increased acceptance of euthanasia, or what is described as...
Proponents of physician assisted suicide are increasing their efforts to expand and legalize this practice in our country. Currently 10 states and the District of Columbia have legalized some form of physician assisted suicide. Sadly, hundreds of people have died by...
In April of 2023 a group of nonprofits that work for disability and patients' rights as well as individuals with disabilities filed a lawsuit in a federal district court, asking the court to declare California’s physician assisted suicide law unlawful and...