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…all Dutch deaths are the result of assisted suicide. In Oregon, assisted suicide deaths climbed from 16 deaths to 132 deaths between 1998 and 2015. The suicides haven’t been limited…

…with chronic conditions like multiple sclerosis, depression, autism, and blindness have committed suicide with the help of their doctors. When doctor-assisted suicide elevates suicide as a solution, it necessarily weakens…

…age can seek medicated suicide. Canada hopes to expand legal suicide for those who don’t suffer from a terminal illness, and a German high court has determined assisted suicide is…

I am a man with a physical disability. I live in Vermont, one of the few U.S. states where physician-assisted suicide is legal. I worry greatly that “death with dignity”…

…happened to my mom happens far more often then we realize. It’s one reason assisted-suicide laws are so dangerous. Eligibility for assisted suicide typically depends on a doctor’s prediction of…

…terminal illness. We need to argue that physician-assisted suicide is not death with dignity. (Indeed, if it were, then not choosing death by suicide in the face of terminal illness…

…suicide. This bill would greatly expand Colorado’s assisted suicide laws, significantly increase access, and reduce the waiting period for those choosing death by medical professionals from 15 days to 48…

…is the difference when it comes to suicide? How Is Suicide Different? From a merely logical point of view, suicide is a choice. The person considering or making the choice…

…regulating assisted suicide, he recommended nothing more than having an “informal conversation” or sending an “educational” or “notice” email. One-quarter of all assisted suicide mills in Ontario triggered at least…

…echo of “Romeo and Juliet,” the episode came off less Shakespearian and more Canadian MAID advertisement. Assisted suicide is an age-old ethical dilemma — is it always wrong to kill…

…human is murder, irrespective of whether the victim consents. The tone of Cutler’s videos is clearly responding to the public’s, and perhaps her own, visceral discomfort with assisted suicide. Cutler…

…entitled “A Letter to Brittany Maynard.” In the video my mom pleaded with Brittany, who had the same diagnosis, not to commit assisted suicide. Unfortunately, Brittany eventually chose to end…

…suicide. Some gun control policies may reduce the number of gun suicides, but they have not yet been shown to reduce the overall risk of suicide in any population. An…

…Post. While several states have legalized assisted suicide, the black population is smaller in those states, and black Americans are much more likely to oppose assisted suicide, much to the…

…assisted suicide and euthanasia were permissible only for the terminally ill soon legalized assisted suicide for those not terminally ill—persons with mental illness, physical disabilities, and even those who didn’t…

…out physician-assisted suicide, the end target is death. The previously mentioned contradiction is rather blatant. It says suicide is permissible in certain situations, and we might call it something else,…

…his hospitalization, Nichols requested and subsequently received medically assisted suicide. He wanted to die because he was experiencing “hearing loss.” According to Canadian law, someone can receive medically assisted suicide…

…including chronic depression among its reasons for assisted suicide. Thirteen percent of Belgians euthanized in 2014 did not have a terminal condition. Non-terminal reasons for suicide include autism, anorexia, borderline…

…state-sanctioned system for physician-assisted suicide. Hawaii is now the seventh U.S. jurisdiction to make physician-assisted suicide legal. The other six are Oregon, Vermont, Washington, California, Colorado, and the District of…

…that Rehm’s special either did not emphasize or left out entirely. Advocating for Assisted Suicide It seems unsurprising that a special hosted by someone considered one of the leading proponents…

…a year are low, the data is suppressed. When suicides and suicide rates are lower, they are more likely to be missing from the data. All of these low suicide…

…Suicide Among Trans Kids Is Rare Any suicide is a tragedy, and all suicide threats must be taken seriously. However, suicide among trans-identified youth is rare, and comparable to that…

…tissue for decades to come. And so we’ve come to the point where we can add cryogenic suicide as one of the innovations of our self-worship. Assisted suicide already places…

…health care in Congress, they’ll have enough votes to approve assisted suicide. To save millions of our citizens from the humiliation of health care shortages and suicide, Democrats’ universal health…

…diagnosed with clinical depression commit suicide. That has not stopped the culture from laying the blame of all suicides on depression, the disease, rather than depression, the feeling. Suicide as…

…despair. As one palliative care website says about why they don’t allow or encourage assisted suicide, “In our experience, the issue of physician-assisted suicide often arises as a response to…

…frankly, life is cheap. Assisted suicide and euthanasia have become big trends in the West (as of 2014, children in Belgium can even opt to be euthanized). The advent of…

…what has happened in other countries. Canada has vastly expanded its assisted suicide regime, loosening criteria to allow for same-day suicide and expanding the number of conditions that qualify. As…

…who choose assisted-suicide have expressed that they are uncomfortable with the term. Assisted suicide, which means helping someone take his or her own life, has been redefined into the more…

…a high probability that suicide rates will increase in many countries of the world. This problem may be especially difficult in the US. Suicide rates have been steadily growing in…

…for assisted suicide, with corporate support. Sheila Gunn Reid, the editor-in-chief of the Canadian newspaper Rebel News, outlined on Fox News last month how Canada has been making it easier…

Colorado is the latest state to legalize assisted suicide after voters approved a ballot initiative Tuesday. Such liberalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide is leading us down a dark path,…

Psychologically healthy people do not commit suicide. Changing genders is an outward expression of some form of depression that started long before the suicide. Studies have shown conclusively that suicide…

…neither an affirmative or negative position on assisted suicide. In fact, note they don’t even refer to it as suicide. As a resolution, it’s a lukewarm. The resolution does, however,…

…MAiD, law allows people without a terminal illness to achieve assisted suicide, provided they have a “grievous and irremediable medical condition,” which includes being in “an advanced state of decline…

My medical training took place in the public hospital of downtown Miami, in the early 1990s. Our city at that time was a drug trafficking hotbed, and our trauma center…