Assisted Suicide

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The New Year should begin with ideas for saving lives, not for killing them

David Alton | 05 January 2012 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, UK

A media frenzy has erupted in the UK over a hopelessly biased report on assisted suicide.

Tipping the scales towards euthanasia

Margaret Somerville | 14 December 2011 |

tags: assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia

A widely publicized report published by the Royal Society of Canada presents a thoroughly one-sided view.

Birthday blue

Michael Cook | 05 July 2011 |

tags: assisted suicide, Australia, euthanasia, human dignity, utilitarianism

Are supporters of legalised euthanasia willing to listen to reason? Maybe not.

Even euthanasia has its funny side

Michael Cook | 03 March 2011 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Philip Nitschke

The world's most famous euthanasia activist is thinking about moving into stand-up comedy.

Hawaii Four-0

Michael Cook | 09 February 2011 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Hawaii

This week a committee of the Hawaii Senate voted to shelve a bill for physician-assisted suicide after listening to emotional public testimony. Here are some of the stories.

The unstoppable expansion of justifications of euthanasia

Margaret Somerville | 24 March 2010 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia

Will euthanasia and assisted suicide need any moral justification at all if they are ever legalised?

Is death better than disability?

Michael Cook | 11 January 2010 |

tags: assisted suicide, disability, euthanasia

Whom better to ask than the disabled? They give some surprising answers.

Past your “use by” date? What’s next?

Margaret Somerville | 19 May 2009 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Peter Singer

Dying human beings are not disposable products.

A short history of voluntary death

Jose A. Bufill | 22 May 2008 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia

The ancients accepted it, Christians rejected it and now a post-Christian elite is embracing euthanasia again.