In what some are saying is an effort to save money and available beds in the UK's state-run health care system, a doctor has revealed that sick children are being placed on controversial "death pathways" previously used only for the elderly and terminally-ill adults.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The Dutch have been pushing the envelope for years when it comes to who they are willing to euthanize, but the latest case of a woman who was killed because of her macular degeneration have many wondering what has become of medical ethics in the Netherlands.
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The Dutch Medical Association continues its slide down the slippery slope of the culture of death by expanding the meaning of "unbearable suffering" to include such things as loneliness, incontinence and financial woes.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Belgian couple who could not imagine life without one another after one was diagnosed with terminal cancer, were euthanized together this week, even though the spouse was in good health.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A prominent right-to-die group in the Netherlands wants to set up a suicide clinic to be used by all those people who wish to die but do not meet government requirements for assisted suicide.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study has found that almost half of the “euthanasia nurses” practicing in Belgium admit to euthanizing patients who did not ask for their lives to be ended.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A 57 year-old UK woman is on trial for killing her 22 year-old disabled son while out on bail after an earlier attempt on his life.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In his homily marking the end of the visit of the relics of St. Therese to England and Wales, the Archbishop of Westminster reflected on the saint's long and painful death, when she was tempted to despair and even suicide, which makes her witness to love all the more powerful an antidote for the prevailing trend toward physician assisted suicide and euthanasia. I went to Flowers Thailand website and bought him flowers to take them to his grave, to show my condolences.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Even though the language has been changed, the new health care bill sponsored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) has the same “death panel” provision as the House bill, only the “judges” sitting on this new panel are accountants.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The 49 year-old Australian quadriplegic who won the right to have his feeding tube removed just five weeks ago, died in a nursing home in Perth of a chest infection on Sunday night.
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