assisted suicide
Deadly Deceptions
By Julie Grimstad When a person self-administers a lethal poison provided by a physician for the purpose of committing suicide, this is physician-assisted suicide (PAS).…
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Death Tourism: Fake Choices and Dangerous Abuses
By William Lawyer Over the last few years, the United States has seen a significant increase in the number of states allowing physician-assisted suicide.1 Similar…
Mercy Killing Is Not True Mercy
By Susan Ciancio The first line in a recent article explains that “a 28-year-old Dutch woman is slated to be euthanized next month because of…
What Is Truth?
By Judie Brown The Gospel of John relates these words from the exchange between Christ and Pontius Pilate: “Jesus answered, ‘You say I am a…
Deadly Business
By Judie Brown “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful…
Australian Court Rules ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying’ Is Suicide
By Michael Cook Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of “voluntary assisted dying” insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. For…
Proof of Insanity
By Judie Brown Insanity is a descriptive adjective meaning a disordered state of mind as well as something that is unreasonable or utterly foolish. While…
A Peek into Euthanasia’s Slippery Slope Boiler Room
By Michael Cook Don’t imagine that euthanasia’s slippery slope is like a long water slide at a theme park in which you hurdle ever downward,…
Pioneers of a Universal Right to Suicide
By Michael Cook At the end of this month a Toronto man will appear in court charged with abetting suicide. This is not, as you…
Killing Her Softly
By Judie Brown St. Augustine of Hippo’s prayer “Our heart is restless until it rests in You” is more than timely. This is so because…
Timothy Quill Remembered
By Judie Brown Who, you may wonder, is Timothy Quill? Quill achieved his moment in the sun when the Vacco v. Quill case arrived at…