A 53-year-old man, who threw his mother off of a balcony to her death because she was suffering from Alzheimers disease was cleared of murder by a judge who said he “acted out of love” – a decision that is raising troubling new ethical questions.
Tag Archives: euthanasia
French Court Orders Man’s Life Support Resumed
Just hours after a French hospital withdrew nutrition and hydration to a young man who has been in a vegetative state since a motorcycle accident in 2008, a French court intervened and ordered the hospital to restore life support.
Public Intervention Saves Woman’s Life
After a Minnesota hospital decided to cut off the oxygen supply needed by a 64-year-old lung cancer patient, the woman’s impassioned YouTube plea rallied the public – and lawyers – who came to her defense and saved her life.
Hawaii Legalizes Assisted Suicide
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Hawaii’s Governor David Ige (D) signed a new law into force that will allow terminally ill patients to end their lives by assisted suicide.
Pope Persuades Suicidal Woman to Live
A Colombian woman who was the victim of a severely disfiguring acid attack and who planned to end her life later this month changed her mind on the spot after speaking with Pope Francis.
Pope Orders Brothers of Charity to Stop Allowing Euthanasia
The Belgian arm of the Brothers of Charity have been ordered by Pope Francis to stop offering euthanasia in their psychiatric hospitals and to sign a statement of allegiance to the Magisterium.
Seminarian With Brain Cancer Addresses Brittany Maynard
Philip Johnson
A young seminarian with incurable brain cancer is praying that 29 year-old Brittany Maynard, who is suffering the same plight and publicly announced plans to take her life with prescription drugs on November 1, is asking her to choose to fight instead so that her life and witness can be an example and inspiration to others.
Dutch Euthanize Woman Who Wants to Avoid Nursing Home
A Dutch woman in her 80’s was killed by lethal injection in the Netherlands simply because she did not want to live in a nursing home.
Man Wakes After 15 Years in Coma
Miguel Parrondo
No one thought Miguel Parrondo would ever wake up. Involved in a serious car accident in which one person died, he lay in a coma for 15 years until one morning in 2002 when his eyes suddenly opened.
Belgium Permits Deaf Twins to be Euthanized
Two 45 year-old twins who were born deaf were permitted to be euthanized by lethal injection under Belgium law after they discovered that they had glaucoma and would soon to go blind.