This theme was selected following an open consultation with people directly affected by serious illness, WHPCA members and supporters, and global hospice and palliative care advocates. We chose ‘Because I Matter’ as this year’s theme, because it centres on the lived experience of people affected by...
A recent story written by supporters of H1194, which would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts, failed to disclose the bill’s many dangers. Opportunities for abuse are rampant in every bill to legalize assisted suicide and vulnerable people are thereby placed at risk. The economically disadvantaged will...
By G. Kevin Donovan The announcement encourages residents to think about assisted suicide and offers resources which help a person pursue it, while all other organizations are trying to find ways to prevent suicide, and help those most in need, and at risk. Aren’t public service...
The suicide rate in Virginia, 13.2 per every 100,000 residents in 2016, increased an alarming 17.4 percent between 1999 and 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So last year, the General Assembly passed a bill requiring the state Department of Behavioral...
[vc_empty_space] [vc_empty_space] Three weeks before his death, JJ and his wife, Kristen, reflect on their life together and how choosing to live and to fight brought them more joy and love then they could have ever imagined. [vc_empty_space] [vc_empty_space] https://youtu.be/jQ6NSuetmWM...
[vc_empty_space] [vc_empty_space] JJ’s family moto is “You can’t hurt steel.” When he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most aggresive form of brain cancer, he fights for his wife, his son, and his life. [vc_empty_space] [vc_empty_space] https://youtu.be/8Fo2uNqKMR8...
[vc_empty_space] Man of Steel JJ’s family moto is “You can’t hurt steel.” When he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most aggresive form of brain cancer, he fights for his wife, his son, and his life. [vc_empty_space] [embed]https://youtu.be/8Fo2uNqKMR8[/embed] [vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_separator type="normal"][vc_column_text] JJ’s Final Days Three weeks before his death, JJ and his wife, Kristen,...
A euthanasia doctor allegedly told the family of a drugged elderly woman to hold her down as as she fought desperately not to be killed The Dutch public prosecutor's office has decided to investigate the case after a college of prosecutors said there is sufficient suspicion...
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