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Demand a Veto of Delaware Death Bill
by Jacqueline Harvey Abernathy, Ph.D. — UPDATE: DELAWARE GOVERNOR HAS VETOED ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL I am overjoyed to share that the...
Sep 20, 20243 min read
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Euthanasia in Canada: The Shifting Language of Deception and MAiD’s Eugenicist Outcomes
by Jordan Kennedy — In 1999, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a pathologist from just outside Detroit, Michigan, rose to international fame following...
Jun 6, 20235 min read
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by Briana Grzybowski — Jean Dominique Bauby was at the top of his game in the mid-1990s. As editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, he was one...
Jun 6, 20234 min read
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Meincke's Moment
by Jack Champagne — As human beings, we instinctively understand the violence of war. After all, war carries with it by its very nature...
Dec 19, 20223 min read
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Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Program is Ableist, Classist, and Coercive
by Sophie Trist — A 2015 ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court in the case of Carter v. Canada paved the way for the country to legalize...
Sep 12, 20224 min read
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Terminal Discrimination
by Jack Champagne — In 1998, Dr. Gregor Wolbring, then Bioethics Advisor to the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), wrote and...
May 28, 20225 min read
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Death at Your Fingertips
by Jack Champagne — Vermont has signed bill S.74, amending the law euphemistically referred to as the Patient Choice and Control at End...
May 19, 20223 min read
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Vulnerable Canadians Deserve Better Care, Not Death
by Katherine Noble — Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program is one of the largest state-sanctioned euthanization programs....
Jan 18, 20223 min read
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On (Ine)Quality of Life
by Kristina Artuković — People with a health condition, chronic illness or disability — even people like me, who have a child with a...
Dec 25, 20218 min read
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Assisted Suicide Capsule Receives Legal Clearance in Switzerland
by Judith Evans — Swiss advocates of assisted suicide are hailing a new invention: a 3-D printed suicide capsule known as “Sarco” — short...
Dec 16, 20213 min read
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Harmful Assisted Suicide Bill Progresses to Committee Stage After Fierce Debate in UK House of Lords
by Sophie Trist — This recent Halloween season has been an unusually scary one. There’s not much scarier for disabled and chronically ill...
Nov 9, 20213 min read
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Colombia Clinic Cancels Woman’s Legal Euthanasia
by Judith Evans — In 2018, a Colombian woman named Martha Liria Sepulveda received a frightening diagnosis: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
Nov 5, 20213 min read
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Legalized Assisted Suicide Is Deeply Harmful for People with Disabilities
by Sophie Trist — Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is deeply harmful to people with disabilities. Many “right to die” proponents scoff at...
Apr 11, 20213 min read
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Assisted Suicide Is Ableist
by Ashley Chilek — When an able-bodied person wants to harm themselves, we try to do everything in our power to stop them; we call it...
Sep 15, 20202 min read
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Suicide Prevention for All
Assisted suicide allows physicians, health care providers, and the legal system to put their own
interests before the interests of the...
Mar 17, 20205 min read
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In Sickness and In Health: Reflections on Death, Disability, and Caregiving
Every person, no matter their level of dependency, deserves to live free from violence.
Feb 28, 20204 min read
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Assisted Suicide: The Social Justice Perspective from #LPJ17
Assisted suicide has been on my mind ever since Washington DC took steps to legalize the act in 2016. The fact that it wasn’t on my radar...
Nov 9, 20174 min read
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What Is Euthanasia?
BY NATALIE GRONHOLM Euthanasia is a tough topic to talk about in today's society. Euthanasia, which is always murder, but sometimes also...
Jun 3, 20131 min read
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