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A concept based on the Canadian healthcare system.

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January 15, 2021
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Reader’s Digest Canada Pushes Euthanasia, Ignores Hospice

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January 15, 2021
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The push is on in Canada to normalize euthanasia as the best way to die — to save money and emotional turmoil. How hard is the push? Reader’s Digest Canada — no less — has published a guide to end-of-life planning that pushes euthanasia and doesn’t even mention hospice. Read More ›

Paid medicine in Canada. Medical tourism. Healthcare in Canada. Treatment abroad. Treatment in Canada. Medical services.

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January 8, 2021
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Canadian Hospice to Be Shuttered for Refusing Euthanasia

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January 8, 2021
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I have written here before about Delta Hospice in British Columbia, which has been under unremitting pressure by the government of the province — including a funding cutoff — only because it refuses to participate in euthanasia. It is now being forced to lay off clinical workers and faces eviction. Read More ›

Medical syringe in the doctor's hands on the patient's in room h

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December 31, 2020
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The Euthanasia Cancer Spreads

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December 31, 2020
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The West is tearing itself apart. The symptoms are evident in our bitterly divided politics and the attempts to punish those with heterodox views. Read More ›

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December 14, 2020
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Austrian Court Creates Right to Assisted Suicide

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December 14, 2020
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A bit ago, Germany’s high court created an absolute right to commit suicide and the concomitant right to have help in making oneself dead. Now, an Austrian court has said that committing suicide is a right of “self determination” and that obtaining help is part of that right. Read More ›

Netherlands healthcare concept. Medical stethoscope with country flag

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November 21, 2020
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Dutch Doctors Can Now Drug Dementia Patients Before Killing Them to Prevent Resistance

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November 21, 2020
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A few years ago, Dutch doctor Marinou Arends attended to her dementia patient in a nursing home. Arends wasn’t there to treat her, but to kill her via lethal injection. Read More ›

Older woman lying in hospital bed alone looking at the Christian crucifix asking for her healing.

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October 21, 2020
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Suicide by Starvation and Expanded Assisted Suicide Promoted in New England Journal of Medicine

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October 21, 2020
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The New England Journal of Medicine is a progressive menace when it comes to policy and cultural issues. Read More ›

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October 13, 2020
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Netherlands Gets Ready for Child Euthanasia

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October 13, 2020
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The Netherlands is about to expand its euthanasia law to allow children ages 1–12 to be killed by doctors. (Children older than 12 already can be euthanized). Read More ›

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October 7, 2020
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Doctor Kills Canadian Man Whose Wife Asked Court to Prevent Euthanasia

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October 7, 2020
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I wrote a bit ago here about the Canadian woman legally trying to prevent her husband from being killed in a euthanasia homicide. The courts rejected her appeal and now the man is dead. Read More ›

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September 23, 2020
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Vatican: No Sacraments for People Choosing Euthanasia

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September 23, 2020
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The Vatican has made it clear that euthanasia and the Sacraments are not compatible. Read More ›

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September 17, 2020
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Assisted Suicide is Never a Treatment for Mental Illness

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September 17, 2020
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Addressing the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith said that activists and pressure groups often use fear, in particular fear-mongering on the difficulties of death, to push through their agenda. Read More ›