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• Man Loads Gun For Wife’s Suicide Attempt

  
  Stop Annoying Me — Authority: 119
  Phillip Rogers was not at all happy with his wife, Tammy. In fact, he was so agitated with her, he told her, “Why don’t you just go kill yourself?” Tammy, not at all intimidated by Phillip, told him to go fetch the gun for her. In a moment straight out of The Deer Hunter, Tammy put the gun to her head and ...
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• EUTHANASIA BILL VOTE PUSHED BACK BY LALONDE TO DECEMBER 2

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 126
  A third reading and vote on a private member’s bill endorsing euthanasia in Canada has been postponed by its author until at least December 2, if not later. Francine Lalonde, a Bloc Quebecois MP, has no hope of seeing the bill passed, which is a very good thing. But she is determined to keep the issue alive ...
  1 day ago

• Now that at least a couple of entire cohorts of schoolchildren have been taught by New Labour to despise rather than respect history ….

  
  onetimothyfour — Authority: 425
  … the war veteran’s charity, Erskine, as reported by The Telegraph, has found that children think: Auschwitz was a Second World War theme park; Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war; SS stood for Enid Blytons Secret Seven; the Blitz was a European clean-up operation following the Second ...
  3 days ago

• “The Good Death”

  
  The Witch Doctor — Authority: 423
  INTOVERTED, SELFISH, TIDY, CONFUSED, NAVAL-GAZERS, OR VICTIMS OF A NEW WORLD PHILOSOPHY? The colourful language used by the Dr Rants of the world may disgust some people. We witches are not disgusted by it even although we ourselves choose to express ourselves in a different way. Where is Dr Rant anyway, My ...
  3 days ago

• Switzerland gets tough on suicide clinics

  
  Practical Ethics — Authority: 116
  The Swiss government (the Federal Council) has recently announced its intention to crack down on “suicide tourism” and to severely restrict the activities of suicide clinics like Dignitas and Exit, which have regularly made the headlines outside Switzerland in the...
  3 days ago

• House Health Care bill puts pro-death provisions back in

  
  Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Authority: 552
  The latest version of the Health Care reform bill in the House of Representatives would use taxpayers’ money to pay for abortions : The Pelosi health-care bill. . .authorizes the public plan to cover all elective abortions — and it will certainly do so. Can anyone imagine the Obama administration’s HHS ...
  3 days ago

• Afternoon - Feria or Daily Mass for the Dead - November 5th, 2009

  
  Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland — Authority: 138
  Anna Arcos Diary >> Who was asked to defend the Church against Hitchens and Fry ? Anna Arcos Diary >> Could the Italian ruling mean no nativity plays in Britain this year ? A Trail of Flowers >> Absolutely write ! Catholic Herald UK >> Exorcist: the devil is afraid of ...
  4 days ago

• Right to Die Under Increased Scrutiny in the U.K.

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 813
  Filed under: Health Care , Woman Up , International Two harrowing cases have brought the whole "right to die" question back to life in the U.K. The first concerns a year-old infant, known only as Baby RB , who suffers from a rare genetic disease that prevents him from moving his muscles freely or breathing on ...
  4 days ago

• Health Plans Forced to Provide Assisted Suicide Counseling

  
  Jeremiah Films Announcements — Authority: 145
  Another little gem found in H.R. 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act involves the requirement for your health insurance plan to provide and pay for assisted suicide counseling. Section 240 requires that all companies offering a qualified health benefits plan to "provide for the dissemination of information ...
  5 days ago

• Couple wrote to BBC to tell of suicide

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  A couple who wrote to the BBC to say they had chosen to take their own lives and criticised British laws on assisted suicides have been found dead at their home, police said last night . Dennis Milner, 83, and his wife Flora, 81, from Newbury, Berkshire, sent a letter and statement to the BBC saying they had "chosen ...
  6 days ago

• Christian Bioethics

  
  The Reformed Reader — Authority: 420
  This is an outstanding book: Bioethics and the Christian Life by David VanDrunen (Wheaton: Crossway, 2009).  While I’ve only read a few books on this subject (including stuff by Stanley Hauerwas and Gilbert Meilaender), I’m glad that this one found its way to my shelves.  I’ll no doubt pass it around to ...
  6 days ago

• Expert slams plans to curb assisted suicide (Switzerland)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  Government proposals to ban or restrict assisted suicide and the activities of right-to-die groups in Switzerland have come in for criticism. Frank Petermann, an expert in medical law in St Gallen, tells swissinfo.ch that the planned regulations go against human rights and will fail to prevent people from travelling ...
  1 week ago

• The Witch Doctor offends the BMJ!

  
  The Witch Doctor — Authority: 423
  Well, My Black Cat, the time has come for The Great All Hallows’ Witching Party. We have to report that it is now The Witching Hour and the moderators and philosophers have not accepted our offering on the BMJ Blog. As promised, we will now reveal to all of cyberspace the deeply profound things that The Witch ...
  1 week ago

• Dr Nitschke says he’ll be selling Nembutal pill next year

  
  Assisted-Suicide Blog — Authority: 106
  A single solid pill for a peaceful death has been developed by Exit International.The pill that is made from a stable inert form of the barbiturate Nembutal has been developed for long term storage and transport. To use the pill to achieve a peaceful death, the pill is altered into the soluble active drug [...]
  1 week ago

• Physician assisted suicide – an open letter

  
  The Witch Doctor — Authority: 423
  The Witch Doctor finds it remarkable that she was so busy getting through the days that she was oblivious to the clever footwork that seemed to be going on at the BMA annual conference in 2005 when a spurious vote was taken which effectively moved the pendulum from “Against” to “Neutral” regarding the ...
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• Swiss assisted suicide groups under government pressure

  
  Assisted-Suicide Blog — Authority: 106
  Switzerland has announced plans to crack down on so-called ’suicide tourism’ by signalling that it might close the Dignitas clinic that has helped hundreds of terminally ill people to end their lives.The plans, in the form of two draft Bills that will be offered for public debate, are likely to set off a rush ...
  1 week ago

• Dignitas could be shut down under Swiss law

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 619
  The Swiss Government has published proposals which could close down controversial suicide centre Dignitas.More than 100 Britons have killed themselves at the Dignitas facility in Zurich.Two options will be presented to the Swiss Parliament, one of which would make assisted suicide centres illegal.The other option is ...
  1 week ago

• Swiss to tighten assisted suicide rules, maybe even ban it

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 604
  (Photo: Undertakers remove body of an assisted suicide from Dignitas office in Zurich, 20 Jan 2003/Sebastian Derungs) Switzerland is looking to change the law on assisted suicide to make sure it is only used as a last resort by the terminally ill.  “We have no interest, as a country, in being attractive for ...
  1 week ago

• Swiss consider ban on assisted suicide because of "death tourists"

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 540
  The Swiss government is considering restricting or even banning organised assisted suicide in an attempt to reduce so-called "death tourism". read more
  1 week ago

• Swiss consider assisted suicide ban

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The Swiss government is considering restricting or even banning organised assisted suicide in an attempt to reduce so-called "death tourism". Swiss authorities want to ensure euthanasia is a last resort for the terminally ill, amid fears their current laws on assisted suicide could be open to abuse. A study last year ...
  1 week ago

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