Two headlines about euthanasia in Canada recently caught my eye. One was about Jolene Van Alstine, a 45-year-old native of Saskatchewan suffering from a rare, but treatable, parathyroid disease that causes intense bone pain, among other things. There were no surgeons in Saskatchewan who were able to perform the required surgery, so she needed aContinue reading “Is Euthanasia Becoming Too Easy?”
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Euthanasia Extremism
In my most recent post, I wrote about my daughter, who has autism. Shortly before that, a headline about how the Netherlands is euthanizing autistic and intellectually handicapped people naturally caught my attention. I would guess that many, if not most, people understandably have an immediate visceral reaction to the term “euthanasia;” I am oneContinue reading “Euthanasia Extremism”
When Is It Right to Die?
In 2014, a U.K. judge ruled that, at the request of the mother, food and water should be withdrawn from her daughter Nancy Fitzmaurice, who was 12 years old and had significant disabilities which made her unable to talk, walk, eat, or drink; it took 14 days for her to die. One of the thingsContinue reading “When Is It Right to Die?”
To the Remnant 