A horrific story has emerged from the Netherlands, where a young woman was killed by euthanasia after doctors deemed care for her manifold psychiatric troubles futile. The woman was a victim of sexual abuse and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ...
"Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love." This was Brittany Maynard's final farewell to the world before taking her own life on Saturday, according to pro-assisted suicide organization Compassion and Choices, which posted her...
Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill 29-year-old who advocates for assisted suicide (and plans to use it herself), has re-evaluated her prior decision to die on November 1. In a new video released by the organization Compassion and Choices, whose...
Assisted suicide proponents manipulate the sick and elderly to believe that their lives are not worth living.
On Tuesday, April 12th, the Human Services Committee of the State House heard House Bill 3520, a bill to restore the rights of patients. (As of print, it was left pending in committee.) House Bill 3520 would stop the operational death panels currently...
The literal meaning of euthanasia is "good death," but in current world culture, euthanasia is being promoted as a means to quickly end the life of someone who is deemed to be ill, suffering, or whose life has lost value according to others. Euthanasia by action...
Classical moral philosophy has always distinguished various forms of treatment according to ordinary versus extraordinary means or proportionate versus disproportionate means. Sound moral judgments may be made by examining the type of treatment to be used, the...
In an era of concern over escalating medical costs, "unproductive" consumers of medical services are increasingly made to see themselves as drains on society and the economy.