Is Euthanasia Becoming Too Easy?

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?”

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”