assisted suicide

community and our experience of dying …

… “We are story-telling animals. Some of our most important shared stories are in the form of metaphor, parable, and poetry. We communicate through imagination and intuition as much as reason and cognition. And we can find and communicate certain realities only indirectly, not directly. Some kinds of knowledge can be sought only by setting

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oregon’s experience with physician assisted suicide …

… a group of prominent British medical and legal experts has authored a report summarizing the Oregon experience with physician assisted suicide (PAS). A significant concern noted is that although early in the Oregon experience one-third of those who committed suicide received psych assessment and treatment for depression and other conditions, most recently none of

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to accompany the suffering human …

… over 50 professors from McGill publish a manifesto warning against medicalized killing – euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. ““There are ramifications here that threaten the freedom and human rights of individuals, both patients and medical professionals, who may be pushed into becoming society’s executioners,” it warns. “It has always been our society’s practice to accompany

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assisted suicide … in Europe …

… a good summary of recent developments in Europe (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands) re assisted suicide, euthanasia and non-voluntary euthanasia. “As the debate over euthanasia has continued in past months in Britain it became clear that opposition to loosening the law comes from many quarters. Brendan O’Neill, the editor of the online commentary site

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