Assisted Suicide


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.


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