Is physician assisted dying/suicide (PAD/PAS) just the first step onto the slippery slope of normalizing suicide? Should we democratize suicide for all autonomous citizens, stripping away the physician’s involvement and clearing the decks of the ruse of easily manipulated subjective criteria that PAD/PAS legislation has...
Massachusetts has a new proposal, filed by state Sen. Barry Finegold, D-Andover, that would make suicide by coercion a crime punishable by jail time. It is long overdue that Massachusetts join the majority of other states with laws that make suicide by coercion a crime punishable...
The special interest group pushing assisted suicide in the United States claims that the law narrowly applies only to terminal patients with six months or less to live. They falsely assert that these laws have worked perfectly in the states where they have been legalized...
Legislation allowing certain terminally ill patients to have quicker access to life-ending medications under the state’s first-in-the-nation assisted suicide law has been signed into law, Gov. Kate Brown’s office announced Wednesday. The law allows those with 15 days left to live to bypass a 15-day waiting...
On August 1, New Jersey will allow terminally ill adult residents to request prescriptions from their doctors for medication to end their lives, but questions remain...
John L’Heureux was a prolific writer and former Stanford professor who died April 22nd in California. His wife, Joan L’Heureux, initially told the New York Times that the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease (1). Within a few days, though, theNew Yorker published an essay...
A man who has lived eight years longer than his medical prognosis, has revealed how he was able to publish a book despite having surgery to remove the part of the brain that enables reading. Martino Sclavi, 46, from London who was first diagnosed with Glioblastoma grade...
