Oregon reports that there were “71 known assisted suicide deaths in 2011, up from 65 the year before.”  Wesley Smith notes that the reports are based solely on self-reporting by doctors, because there are no mandatory reporting requirements.

Lia Mills of Canada: “As a nation we need to kill the pain not the patient.  If euthanasia is allowed, the frail line of trust between doctor and patient would be destroyed.”

Holland government’s euthanasia monitoring commission, said that the increase in numbers likely came because the “taboo” was removed on euthanasia over the years since its legalization.

A paper about to be published in the Journal of Law and Medicine promoting a model futile care hospital protocol argues that patients and surrogates be made aware that the hospital has ultimate decision making authority.

Dr. Bellieni urges us to stop treating little preborn, newborn, and infirm people like second-class citizens, denying their personhood and their basic human rights.

Acting on the speculation that such chilled air could not be good for the patient, the tube was removed. One month later, the woman came out of the vegetative state and was verbal and able to respond to questions.

We need only look to the experience of the Netherlands to see the social forces unleashed by legalizing the euthanasia/assisted suicide. 

Deacon Charlie Burch shares with us the story of a hospice ministry founded on sound Christian principles.

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Millions of seniors requiring care are attended by their spouses or their own adult children and many caregivers struggle to balance caregiving with other responsibilities, including full-time jobs and raising their children.

Around a quarter of patients in an acute vegetative state when they are first admitted to hospital have a good chance of recovering making it extremely important to use caution when deciding to limit medical care.

Dr. Kevorkian told an audience that he would be violating the terms of his parole to discuss euthanasia in an expanded sense, but did admit to killing about 20 percent of the people who came to him and asked him for his help in taking their lives.

Mr. Smith explains that 49 percent of those polled now view physican assisted suicide as "wrong."

This article explains how the reporting requirements in Oregon demonstrate and allow biases in favor of assisted suicide.