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Assisted Suicide
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August 18, 2019
New Jersey court temporarily blocks assisted suicide law from taking effect; rules not issued, no conscience protections for objecting doctors, drugs can get into the wrong hands, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/restraining-order-obtained-halting-new.html
New Zealand lawmaker asks for conscience protections in assisted suicide bill now up front; given Canada’s experience of eventually forcing doctors to participate, it’s foreseeable the protections are needed at the outset
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/david-seymour-hits-back-at-national-mp-seeking-protections-for-institutions-over-euthanasia.html
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12258952
Woman confronts Philip Nitschke (‘Dr. Death’) at pro-euthanasia forum: "Apologise for what happened to my father.... The information you put out kills people who are not in a rational state of mind to make that decision."
https://www.9news.com.au/national/perth-news-woman-confronts-euthanasia-advocate-philip-nitschke-dr-death/0b6919cf-4f7d-4234-956b-86bc0c208097
Philip Nitschke (‘Dr. Death’) - inventor of the suicide pod - starts video-streaming service to watch as people are killing themselves so he can get “good information”
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/14/euthanasia-activist-has-devised-a-new-video-service-allowing-him-to-watch-people-kill-themselves/
Patterns seen elsewhere are repeating in Washington state: dramatic increase in assisted suicides, lack of psychological care, original justification ‘intractable pain’ not among top reasons, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/disturbing-trends-revealed-in-latest.html
The push is on to expand assisted suicide to people who are thought to be at risk for Alzheimer’s
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/13/activists-want-to-expand-assisted-suicide-to-allow-euthanizing-alzheimers-patients/
U.S. government issues scathing reports on state of hospice care - wrong medication administered, failing to clean wounds, and other horror stories. Hospice abuse is often cited to justify assisted suicide laws, so remedying the deficiencies needs to be a priority.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/us-government-report-shows-hospice-for.html
Lutheran convention condemns assisted suicide and urges congregants to speak out against it
https://blogs.lcms.org/2019/lcms-convention-condemns-physician-assisted-suicide-remembers-the-persecuted-church/
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition’s Alex Schadenberg celebrates 20 years of being in the fight: “You can’t be silent about a law that allows physicians and nurse practitioners to kill people. I have no fear of death. I do fear a country that allows people to kill me.”
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/schadenberg-celebrates-20-years-oposing.html
New Jersey court temporarily blocks assisted suicide law from taking effect; rules not issued, no conscience protections for objecting doctors, drugs can get into the wrong hands, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/restraining-order-obtained-halting-new.html
New Zealand lawmaker asks for conscience protections in assisted suicide bill now up front; given Canada’s experience of eventually forcing doctors to participate, it’s foreseeable the protections are needed at the outset
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/david-seymour-hits-back-at-national-mp-seeking-protections-for-institutions-over-euthanasia.html
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12258952
Woman confronts Philip Nitschke (‘Dr. Death’) at pro-euthanasia forum: "Apologise for what happened to my father.... The information you put out kills people who are not in a rational state of mind to make that decision."
https://www.9news.com.au/national/perth-news-woman-confronts-euthanasia-advocate-philip-nitschke-dr-death/0b6919cf-4f7d-4234-956b-86bc0c208097
Philip Nitschke (‘Dr. Death’) - inventor of the suicide pod - starts video-streaming service to watch as people are killing themselves so he can get “good information”
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/14/euthanasia-activist-has-devised-a-new-video-service-allowing-him-to-watch-people-kill-themselves/
Patterns seen elsewhere are repeating in Washington state: dramatic increase in assisted suicides, lack of psychological care, original justification ‘intractable pain’ not among top reasons, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/disturbing-trends-revealed-in-latest.html
The push is on to expand assisted suicide to people who are thought to be at risk for Alzheimer’s
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/13/activists-want-to-expand-assisted-suicide-to-allow-euthanizing-alzheimers-patients/
U.S. government issues scathing reports on state of hospice care - wrong medication administered, failing to clean wounds, and other horror stories. Hospice abuse is often cited to justify assisted suicide laws, so remedying the deficiencies needs to be a priority.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/us-government-report-shows-hospice-for.html
Lutheran convention condemns assisted suicide and urges congregants to speak out against it
https://blogs.lcms.org/2019/lcms-convention-condemns-physician-assisted-suicide-remembers-the-persecuted-church/
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition’s Alex Schadenberg celebrates 20 years of being in the fight: “You can’t be silent about a law that allows physicians and nurse practitioners to kill people. I have no fear of death. I do fear a country that allows people to kill me.”
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/schadenberg-celebrates-20-years-oposing.html
August 11, 2019
Assisted suicides jump 25% in Washington State; slow painful deaths also spike due to new drugs being used
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/02/washington-state-assisted-suicides-jump-25-many-patients-experience-long-and-painful-deaths/
New Jersey assisted suicide law now in effect
https://www.oann.com/n-j-s-right-to-die-law-set-to-go-into-effect-this-week/
The oft-denied but factually demonstrable ‘slippery slope’ is foreseeable in New Jersey - watch for expansion to children and the mentally ill and the watering down of ‘safeguards’.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/01/assisted-suicide-is-now-legal-in-new-jersey-it-could-get-even-worse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=assisted-suicide-is-now-legal-in-new-jersey-it-could-get-even-worse&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWWpreE9HVmxZMll6WTJVNSIsInQiOiJlRGRLeFg0K3NlVmg0WHhIVG5QRU92cEtyNGJ4VTI1VUVvb0dqSUVpeGhBdVczUnY3QTlYbkNhODdDYmJySFFGR2IyOFVRN3Z3c1d3UCtsdERsdEpqV2o4NG5XMUkyRkYzUnpDWXRsWE1mT2w3NURIdnhXRjd0OWJhWVBcLzZMb2oifQ%3D%3D
Assisted suicide law takes effect in Australia’s Victoria state
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49230903
Proponents trying to ram euthanasia bill through Western Australia parliament without debate. #ExposeTheirMethods
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/euthanasia-law-to-be-fast-tracked-in.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=12c8ed7c61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_06_07_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-12c8ed7c61-198493385
Opponents to Maine’s new assisted suicide law collecting signatures at churches to block the measure from taking effect in September
https://www.centralmaine.com/2019/08/09/organizers-turn-to-maine-congregations-for-peoples-veto-campaigns/
Canadian euthanasia doctor defied the wishes of faith-based facility in sneaking into nursing home to kill patient, but cleared of wrong-doing after regulators found all legal requirements were met
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/09/doctor-cleared-of-wrongdoing-after-sneaking-into-nursing-home-to-euthanize-patient/
The ‘end of suffering’ and ‘perfect death’ stories flooding Australia, UK, and Canada are pure propaganda designed to promote social acceptance of “assisted death”, but it’s working
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/propaganda-promoting-assisted-death.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=12c8ed7c61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_06_07_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-12c8ed7c61-198493385
Alzheimer’s is the latest bugaboo being used to sell assisted suicide; coffee klatches and detailed instructions to nursing homes also among recent marketing efforts
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/marketing-death-and-alzheimers-disease.html
“Fighting Euthanasia: Man With Multiple Sclerosis Travels North America Speaking on the Value of Human Life”
https://stream.org/fighting-euthanasia-man-with-multiple-sclerosis-travels-north-america-speaking-on-the-value-of-human-life/
Psychiatrists should help people who are in despair; aiding and abetting suicide is the opposite of what psychiatrists should be doing.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/dr-mark-komrad-why-psychiatrists-should.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=12c8ed7c61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_06_07_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-12c8ed7c61-198493385
Self-reporting by doctors and putting false cause of death on death certificates (the underlying condition, not euthanasia) is a recipe for ‘Angels of Death’ (i.e., serial killers) to operate in the medical profession with impunity
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/ontario-report-into-wettlaufer-deaths.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=45c3ae2e16-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_02_05_45_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-45c3ae2e16-198493385
Assisted suicide far more prevalent among whites than minorities; activists are busy trying to build acceptance for euthanasia among minority groups
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/07/assisted-suicide-white-privilege-policy.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=35eb4e5b98-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_31_04_42_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-35eb4e5b98-198493385
Assisted suicides jump 25% in Washington State; slow painful deaths also spike due to new drugs being used
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/02/washington-state-assisted-suicides-jump-25-many-patients-experience-long-and-painful-deaths/
New Jersey assisted suicide law now in effect
https://www.oann.com/n-j-s-right-to-die-law-set-to-go-into-effect-this-week/
The oft-denied but factually demonstrable ‘slippery slope’ is foreseeable in New Jersey - watch for expansion to children and the mentally ill and the watering down of ‘safeguards’.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/01/assisted-suicide-is-now-legal-in-new-jersey-it-could-get-even-worse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=assisted-suicide-is-now-legal-in-new-jersey-it-could-get-even-worse&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWWpreE9HVmxZMll6WTJVNSIsInQiOiJlRGRLeFg0K3NlVmg0WHhIVG5QRU92cEtyNGJ4VTI1VUVvb0dqSUVpeGhBdVczUnY3QTlYbkNhODdDYmJySFFGR2IyOFVRN3Z3c1d3UCtsdERsdEpqV2o4NG5XMUkyRkYzUnpDWXRsWE1mT2w3NURIdnhXRjd0OWJhWVBcLzZMb2oifQ%3D%3D
Assisted suicide law takes effect in Australia’s Victoria state
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49230903
Proponents trying to ram euthanasia bill through Western Australia parliament without debate. #ExposeTheirMethods
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/euthanasia-law-to-be-fast-tracked-in.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=12c8ed7c61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_06_07_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-12c8ed7c61-198493385
Opponents to Maine’s new assisted suicide law collecting signatures at churches to block the measure from taking effect in September
https://www.centralmaine.com/2019/08/09/organizers-turn-to-maine-congregations-for-peoples-veto-campaigns/
Canadian euthanasia doctor defied the wishes of faith-based facility in sneaking into nursing home to kill patient, but cleared of wrong-doing after regulators found all legal requirements were met
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/09/doctor-cleared-of-wrongdoing-after-sneaking-into-nursing-home-to-euthanize-patient/
The ‘end of suffering’ and ‘perfect death’ stories flooding Australia, UK, and Canada are pure propaganda designed to promote social acceptance of “assisted death”, but it’s working
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/propaganda-promoting-assisted-death.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=12c8ed7c61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_06_07_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-12c8ed7c61-198493385
Alzheimer’s is the latest bugaboo being used to sell assisted suicide; coffee klatches and detailed instructions to nursing homes also among recent marketing efforts
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/marketing-death-and-alzheimers-disease.html
“Fighting Euthanasia: Man With Multiple Sclerosis Travels North America Speaking on the Value of Human Life”
https://stream.org/fighting-euthanasia-man-with-multiple-sclerosis-travels-north-america-speaking-on-the-value-of-human-life/
Psychiatrists should help people who are in despair; aiding and abetting suicide is the opposite of what psychiatrists should be doing.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/dr-mark-komrad-why-psychiatrists-should.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=12c8ed7c61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_06_07_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-12c8ed7c61-198493385
Self-reporting by doctors and putting false cause of death on death certificates (the underlying condition, not euthanasia) is a recipe for ‘Angels of Death’ (i.e., serial killers) to operate in the medical profession with impunity
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/08/ontario-report-into-wettlaufer-deaths.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=45c3ae2e16-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_02_05_45_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-45c3ae2e16-198493385
Assisted suicide far more prevalent among whites than minorities; activists are busy trying to build acceptance for euthanasia among minority groups
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/07/assisted-suicide-white-privilege-policy.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=35eb4e5b98-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_31_04_42_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-35eb4e5b98-198493385
July 28, 2019
Oregon removes waiting period for assisted suicide if ‘near death’
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/25/oregon-gov-signs-bill-for-people-to-kill-themselves-asap-removes-waiting-period-for-assisted-suicide/
Dutch and Belgian guidelines allow doctors to euthanize mentally ill patients even though “(h)opelessness and unbearable suffering for persons with a mental disorder are elastic, subjective concepts”
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/24/belgium-guidelines-allow-doctors-to-euthanize-mentally-ill-patients/
Assisted suicide and euthanasia are underway in Victoria state (Australia) as first request received
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/first-permit-issued-under-australian-states-assisted-suicide-euthanasia-law-47569
Police are confiscating imported euthanasia drugs from up to 100 elderly Australians; euthanasia pushers cry foul
https://7news.com.au/news/qld/australian-euthanasia-group-members-raided-by-police-over-drug-imports-dr-death-claims-c-364796
Report: “George Soros Funds Activists Pushing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Worldwide” (documented; not a rant)
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/26/george-soros-funds-activists-pushing-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide-worldwide/
Assisted suicide true believer starts group to train doctors how to kill
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/24/assisted-suicide-doctors-start-new-organization-teaching-other-doctors-how-to-kill-patients/
“At one time, assisted suicide was unthinkable... Now it is the conversation. From here we will move on to indoctrination, acceptance and coerced approval.”
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/26/jack-kevorkian-killed-130-people-in-assisted-suicides-now-patients-are-being-euthanized-against-their-will/
Abandoning the ‘dead donor’ rule for organ transplants would mark the disabled and other innocents for extermination
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/26/jack-kevorkian-killed-130-people-in-assisted-suicides-now-patients-are-being-euthanized-against-their-will/
Journal article argues for assisted suicide in U.S. prisons
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-last-frontier-in-prison-reform.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=64e41682d9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_26_02_18_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-64e41682d9-198493385
‘Do or refer’ provisions in assisted suicide laws override medical judgment. Case in point: Jeanette Hall who sought assisted suicide but her doctor talked her into cancer treatment. She’s been cancer-free for 19 years.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/07/do-or-refer-doctors-are-not-allowed-to.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=b9b566831d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_23_04_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-b9b566831d-198493385
Yo, euthanistas! Suicide machines stopped being cute a long time ago. Get some new shtick.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2019/july/euthanasia-activists-new-3d-printed-suicide-pod-promises-almost-euphoric-death
Oregon removes waiting period for assisted suicide if ‘near death’
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/25/oregon-gov-signs-bill-for-people-to-kill-themselves-asap-removes-waiting-period-for-assisted-suicide/
Dutch and Belgian guidelines allow doctors to euthanize mentally ill patients even though “(h)opelessness and unbearable suffering for persons with a mental disorder are elastic, subjective concepts”
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/24/belgium-guidelines-allow-doctors-to-euthanize-mentally-ill-patients/
Assisted suicide and euthanasia are underway in Victoria state (Australia) as first request received
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/first-permit-issued-under-australian-states-assisted-suicide-euthanasia-law-47569
Police are confiscating imported euthanasia drugs from up to 100 elderly Australians; euthanasia pushers cry foul
https://7news.com.au/news/qld/australian-euthanasia-group-members-raided-by-police-over-drug-imports-dr-death-claims-c-364796
Report: “George Soros Funds Activists Pushing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Worldwide” (documented; not a rant)
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/26/george-soros-funds-activists-pushing-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide-worldwide/
Assisted suicide true believer starts group to train doctors how to kill
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/24/assisted-suicide-doctors-start-new-organization-teaching-other-doctors-how-to-kill-patients/
“At one time, assisted suicide was unthinkable... Now it is the conversation. From here we will move on to indoctrination, acceptance and coerced approval.”
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/26/jack-kevorkian-killed-130-people-in-assisted-suicides-now-patients-are-being-euthanized-against-their-will/
Abandoning the ‘dead donor’ rule for organ transplants would mark the disabled and other innocents for extermination
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/26/jack-kevorkian-killed-130-people-in-assisted-suicides-now-patients-are-being-euthanized-against-their-will/
Journal article argues for assisted suicide in U.S. prisons
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-last-frontier-in-prison-reform.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=64e41682d9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_26_02_18_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-64e41682d9-198493385
‘Do or refer’ provisions in assisted suicide laws override medical judgment. Case in point: Jeanette Hall who sought assisted suicide but her doctor talked her into cancer treatment. She’s been cancer-free for 19 years.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/07/do-or-refer-doctors-are-not-allowed-to.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=b9b566831d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_23_04_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-b9b566831d-198493385
Yo, euthanistas! Suicide machines stopped being cute a long time ago. Get some new shtick.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2019/july/euthanasia-activists-new-3d-printed-suicide-pod-promises-almost-euphoric-death