Softened up for death

Cristina Alarcon | 22 September 2009 | comment 13

Could our persistent search for a hardship-free world be blinding us to the value of suffering?

Justifying one’s existence

Barbara Kay | 28 July 2009 | comment 7

Choosing to live out one’s natural life will soon be as unpopular as refusing an abortion.

Manipulating pain

Margaret Somerville | 28 July 2009 | comment 4

The euthanasia lobby insists on confusing pain relief with euthanasia. There is a clear distinction.

Past your “use by” date? What’s next?

Margaret Somerville | 19 May 2009 | comment 33

Dying human beings are not disposable products.

Animal choices

Richard Umbers | 24 April 2009 | comment 29

A whale lover explains why he cannot join Greenpeace.

Let’s put this pet theory to sleep

Stephen Drake and Dick Sobsey | 27 March 2009 | comment 14

We have suffered long enough the euthanasia lobby's myth that society is kinder to animals than to humans.

The last great act of living

Margaret Somerville | 27 March 2009 | comment 7

Legalising euthanasia would deny the full potential of the human spirit.

The bitter legacy of the fate of Eluana Englaro

Angel Rodríguez Luño | 07 March 2009 | comment 14

Italy has been torn apart by a debate over whether a woman who had spent 17 years in a deep coma should die.

If doctors who won’t kill are ‘wicked,’ the world is sick

Licia Corbella | 14 January 2009 | comment 14

When doctors are called "wicked" for not killing patients, something is amiss.

The price for opposing euthanasia

Michael Cook | 06 December 2008 | comment 24

The Grand Duke of Luxembourg is to be stripped of his executive veto after refusing to rubber-stamp a euthanasia law.

Death talk in a secular age

Margaret Somerville | 18 November 2008 | comment 49

We must formulate a moral argument against euthanasia without resorting to religion.

Welcome to Baroness Warnock’s perfect world of total pleasure

Brigitte Pellerin | 04 October 2008 | comment 20

The movement to remove all suffering from life takes another step forward, calling for people with dementia to die for the good of all.

In Oregon, you have lots of options

Michael Cook | 16 August 2008 | comment 2

Oregon finds that it's cheaper to allow patients to commit suicide. 

Giving them reasons to live

Michelle Martin | 07 August 2008 | comment 22

Our duty to the mentally ill is brushed aside by the right-to-die lobby.

A joy that dementia could not crush

Colleen Carroll Campbell | 02 August 2008 | comment 17

The frail and elderly have an inherent dignity no disease or disability can erase.

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