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Special Report: Death with Dignity, Or So They Say
August 30, 2020

Disturbing Developments Down the Slippery Slope

COVID-induced isolation leads healthy Canadian woman in long-term care facility to ask for assisted suicide
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/bc-woman-asks-for-assisted-suicide.html
  • We’re a long way from the ‘intractable pain’ rationale that kicked the whole euthanasia craze off

Canadian woman fighting husband’s request for assisted death; husband is 83, not terminally ill, a delusional hypochondriac who lacks mental capacity to make decisions; court hearing set for Sept. 24th.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/nova-scotia-woman-returns-to-court-to.html
  • We’re a long way from the ‘intractable pain’ rationale that....

Supporters vow to press ahead with relaxing euthanasia restrictions in Canada in cases where death not reasonably foreseeable, but outcome of parliamentary wrangling is currently unclear; bill goes far beyond what a court has required, expert who wants a thorough study says
https://grandinmedia.ca/liberals-press-ahead-with-changes-to-assisted-suicide-law/
  • We’re a long way from....

Expansive euthanasia bill in Tasmania would allow people to reject medical treatment, then claim ‘intolerable suffering’ and demand the government end their life
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/tasmania-bill-will-allow-wide-open.html
  • We’re a long way from....

Dispute over whether Christian hospice in Canada should lose public funding for its refusal to participate in euthanasia headed to appeals court
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/canadian-appeal-court-to-hear-case-of-hospice-refusing-to-offer-euthanasia-88606
  • The euthanasia craze started with the claim it would expand ‘choice’ but, here, the euthanistas want to blast through conscience rights and remove choice.

Experimental therapies, social services, mental health treatment, proper evaluation of a patient’s belief they are a burden - society should be providing these and other rays of hope, not pushing assisted death drugs on people
https://spectator.org/natalie-harp-anti-assisted-suicide-speech/
  • The euthanasia craze started with it being considered a last resort; now it’s normalized and often the first thing people think of when in distress.  Not a healthy development.

The push is on everywhere to expand assisted death, but the noise from propaganda is making it look like people are demanding expanded access more than they really are
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/who-really-wants-to-die-brief.html

Euthanista invents ‘killer roller coaster’ that produces euphoria before killing passengers by starving their brains of oxygen
http://thescienceexplorer.com/technology/euthanasia-roller-coaster-ride-designed-death#.Xzk2r3_EUt4.twitter
  • From intractable pain the thrill-seeking, wow!  Euthanasia is making people sick in the head.

Dutch euthanasia doctor admits the slippery slope is real and doctors are now offing their patients in circumstances that would have been unthinkable just 20 years ago
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-slippery-slope-is-real-says-dutch.html
 

August 16, 2020

Euthanasia: The Sickness is Spreading

 “People suffocated, it was horrible to watch.”  Sweden’s high nursing home COVID death rate indicates many elderly were lied to and effectively euthanized as a matter of government policy, i.e., given morphine instead of COVID treatment
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/25/sweden-may-have-euthanized-elderly-coronavirus-patients-people-suffocated-it-was-horrible-to-watch/
  • What awaits down euthanasia’s slippery slope - the state-directed killing of the inconvenient. This is a very short jump from what happened in Sweden.

Doctors in Texas pass judgment on quality of quadriplegic’s life, deliberately starve him to death because of his disability against the family’s wishes
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/26/doctors-starved-quadriplegic-coronavirus-patient-to-death-because-of-his-disability/

Two Japanese doctors indicted for facilitating death of woman with ALS; money a factor (euthanasia is homicide in Japan)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/two-japanese-doctors-charged-in.html

Death report hidden by Belgian government for 7 years shows multiple violations of law in 2012 euthanasia case - no independent doctors, review process marred by conflict of interest, treatment for depression not exhausted, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/07/belgium-law-violated-to-kill-depressed.html

The fangs come out - From ‘stopping intractable pain’ rationale for euthanasia to this:  “93% of Belgian neonatal doctors support euthanasia of newborns with disabilities.”  These are self-interested vicious people flying a false flag of ‘compassion’.  They would have fit right in in Hitler’s Germany.  #MasterRace
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/study-936-of-belgian-physicians-support.html

Canada shows legalization produces ever-increasing numbers of euthanasia/assisted suicide cases, coercion goes undetected, mental capacity not adequately assessed, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/canadas-euthaansia-juggernaut.html

International euthanasia advocate in New Zealand loses medical license after being convicted for illegally helping three people to die
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/euthanasia-activist-sean-davison-loses.html

Disabled Canadian man wants assistance in living, not assisted suicide; points out in-home care would be cheaper than warehousing disabled people in hospitals or nursing homes
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/jonathan-marchand-assistance-in-living.html

12 deaths by assisted suicide so far in New Jersey; no info reported on possible law violations, by design
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/new-jersey-reports-12-assisted-suicide.html

New Zealand referendum measure, if passed, will lead to many deaths because it allows doctors and nurses to administer lethal dose (fewer people will choose this route if they have to administer the dose themselves)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/new-zealand-end-of-life-choice-act.html

Czech government rejects euthanasia for the third time; points out dubious motives and practices in euthanasia countries
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/08/czech-government-rejects-euthanasia.html

Support for advanced directive euthanasia/assisted suicide drops after poll respondents read complicating scenarios about disease situations
https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/euthanasia-polling-data-may-fail-to-capture-peoples-considered-views/13513
  • ‘The public supports euthanasia/assisted suicide!’ Really? Beware the ‘do you want free ice cream?’ poll question.  Who wouldn’t answer ‘yes’?  But many will answer ‘no’ if the poll question is ‘Do you want free ice cream if it means your kids will get more cavities and you’ll have to pay big money to the dentist?’  So don’t be hoodwinked by advocates saying ‘polls show the public supports this’. 

Webinar archived video available: “Stop Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide” by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeHbBERDEZk&t=40s
August 2, 2020

Assisted Suicide Deaths on the Rise in Multiple Jurisdictions

Webinar - Stop euthanasia and assisted suicide (w/Alex Schadenberg).  Wednesday 8/5 2pmET
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/07/epc-august-5-webinar-update.html

Assisted suicide deaths almost double in Canada; now 2 percent of all deaths in the country
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/medical-suicides-double-in-canada-40268
Assisted suicide deaths in California up 20 percent last year
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/07/california-assisted-suicide-deaths.html

Pace of assisted suicides picking up in Hawaii - 15 assisted suicide deaths in 2019, 13 in first half 2020; state health department pushing to relax restrictions (eliminate certain waiting periods, allow nurses to administer lethal dose)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/07/hawaii-2019-assisted-suicide-report.html

Ethicist: euthanasia is a slow-moving pandemic, social contagion taking hold
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/ethicist-margaret-somerville-compares-the-spread-of-euthanasia-legislation-to-a-slow-moving-pandemic/

Campaign condemns Dutch ‘completed lives’ bill that would extend voluntary euthanasia to anyone over 75 for any reason
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/40119

Papers in court challenge to euthanasia death of healthy Belgian woman for depression by oncologist with no psychiatric training show numerous violations, including supposedly ‘independent’ consultations with doctors from pro-euthanasia lobbying group
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/07/belgium-law-violated-to-kill-depressed.html
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https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/07/belgian-man-fights-for-justice-in.html

Government flyer on New Zealand euthanasia referendum misleads on eligibility criteria and exaggerates ‘safeguards’ against pressure
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/07/new-zealand-euthanasia-referendum-end.html

12 assisted suicides in New Jersey, so far, under new law
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8582261/Twelve-terminally-ill-New-Jersey-residents-used-states-new-assisted-suicide-law.html

Approving assisted suicide in dementia and non compos mentis cases paves the way for involuntary government-directed euthanasia
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/07/assisted-suicide-for-people-with.html

Patients now have to ask: Are you the kind of doctor that wants to cure me, or the kind that wants to hasten my death?
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/07/patients-can-no-longer-assume-that.html