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21. Unnatural selection: How animal euthanasia undermines the case for human euthanasia: (Bioethics at the End of Life); By Grace Carroll Introductory comments A key argument by euthanasia proponents is that because we have animal euthanasia to alleviate animal suffering, we should therefore have human euthanasia to ...; Created on 17 May 2018
22. Justice Select Committee - Call for Submissions on End of Life Choice Bill: (Campaigns); ... End of Life Choice Bill. Read the bill here. The Bill seeks to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide - called assisted dying in the Bill) for people with a terminal illness or a "grievous and irremediable" ...; Created on 07 January 2018
23. A Strategy to Prevent Suicide in New Zealand (2017): A Draft for Consultation.: (Bioethics at the End of Life); ... and irremediable medical condition’, which can include mental illness. Links between suicide in the general population and legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide 20. There is a potential additional ...; Created on 07 September 2017
24. Euthanasia, Assisted suicide and the Medical Profession: ‘Keep Doctors Out of It’.: (Bioethics at the End of Life); Doctors are not necessary for the regulation or practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide Many doctors want no part in euthanasia or assisted suicide, including some who, on a personal level, are not ...; Created on 07 September 2017
25. Editorial - All suicides matter – connecting the dots: (Bioethics at the End of Life); In early August the Health Select Committee Report into Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia was presented to Parliament. The Report is timely given that David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill was drawn from ...; Created on 07 September 2017
26. “A Strategy to Prevent Suicide in New Zealand. 2017. A Draft for Consultation”: (Submissions); ... which can include mental illness. Links between suicide in the general population and legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide: 35. There is also the potential additional risk of an increase in suicide ...; Created on 21 August 2017
27. Health Select Committee states 80% are opposed to medically-assisted dying: (News); Press Release 3/08/2017 An overwhelming 80% of submissions to Parliament’s Health Select Committee oppose medically-assisted dying, it was revealed in the Committee’s Report on euthanasia and assisted ...; Created on 03 August 2017
28. InterChurch Bioethics Council Disappointed that the “End-of-Life-Choice Bill” has been drawn: (Press releases); Press Release 14/6/2017 Last week David Seymour’s “End-of-Life-Choice Bill” was drawn from the private member’s bill ballot, engaging Parliament on a debate around voluntary euthanasia – the intentional ...; Created on 13 June 2017
29. Please do not make a hole in the dike: (Bioethics at the Beginning of Life); ... on things. Sadly, as I tried to keep up with events in my old country, I became aware of a trend towards euthanasia which culminated in 2001 in a bill to legalise it, after the courts had allowed doctors ...; Created on 12 June 2017
30. Culture, Human Dignity and Economic Rationalisation: (What is Bioethics?); ... to handle the latest technology. This favours the young and quick-adapters. However, with the favouring of the young and the quick, comes a devaluing of the old and the sick. Hence a push for euthanasia ...; Created on 05 December 2016
31. The Nathaniel Centre Oral Submission to the Health Select Committee: (Uncategorised); ... which we live: One of the arguments most commonly put forward in favour of assisted suicide or euthanasia (for the sake of brevity I will use the term ‘euthanasia’ to cover both practices from here ...; Created on 09 November 2016
32. Age Discrimination: (Bioethics at the End of Life); ... excluded are denied the resources that they need to live a meaningful life. While this dynamic continues in society, any talk of legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide is particularly fraught. Might ...; Created on 03 October 2016
33. Book Review: “Dear Life. On Caring for the Elderly” by Karen Hitchcock: (Bioethics at the End of Life); ... of the elderly. Hitchcock addresses a number of ethical issues – futility, over- and under-treatment, burden, euthanasia, advanced care directives – interspersing these with moving stories of real people ...; Created on 19 May 2016
34. Assisted Suicide in Oregon – Updated Facts re Safeguards: (Euthanasia); ... Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/assisted-suicide/to-live-each-day/upload/Oregon-and-Washing-euthanasia-2013.pdf ...; Created on 19 May 2016
35. The Right to Freedom of Conscience: (What is Bioethics?); ... An excellent example of this is seen in the debates over euthanasia in the British House of Lords and in Canada in the course of which a number of health professionals, avowedly agnostic or even atheistic, ...; Created on 15 December 2015
36. Valuing the elderly and keeping them socially connected: (Bioethics at the End of Life); ... particularly for the above-80-year-old age cohort."3 We also know that in places where assisted suicide or euthanasia is available, the most common end of life concerns are not pain-related but existential, ...; Created on 25 October 2015
37. The abolition of Capital Punishment in New Zealand: (What is Bioethics?); Staff of The Nathaniel Centre Capital Punishment and euthanasia have the manifest similarity that both concern the deliberate and state-sanctioned ending of life, which is why both also, quite ...; Created on 25 October 2015
38. Editorial: Euthanasia, democracy and public policy – lessons from the abolition of capital punishment: (What is Bioethics?); ... not ready to accept it. However, Parliament should give a lead to public opinion.”2 Controversial issues such as capital punishment, and in our time euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS), give us pause ...; Created on 25 October 2015
39. Euthanasia polls: What do they really tell us?: (What is Bioethics?); John Kleinsman Introduction In recent years, various polls seeking the views of the New Zealand public on euthanasia and assisted suicide have consistently reported that 60-70% of people support their ...; Created on 25 October 2015
40. Health Select Committee: (Campaigns); ... in which we live: One of the arguments most commonly put forward in favour of assisted suicide or euthanasia (for the sake of brevity I will use the term ‘euthanasia’ to cover both practices from here ...; Created on 11 September 2015