euthanasia

  1. The Liturgist

    First-World Persecution: Implications for Moral Theology

    We are all aware of increasing persecution of Christians for expressing scriptural truth about homosexuality, trans-sexual mutilation, abortion, euthanasia and other issues which have been adopted by certain “progressive” governments, media and major corporations, for example, this incident...
  2. The Narrow Way

    PRO-CHOICE ~ In Favor of Murder of the Young & the Old

    Canadian church hosts controversial assisted suicide ceremony for member with ALS Very hard for me to understand how any Christian can support MURDER...whether it be of the Young or the Old....and then to have it done in the Church!?! WHAT will they do next!?!! I am curious to see what people...
  3. Occams Barber

    Voluntary Assisted Dying Legalised in South Australia

    Voluntary assisted dying law passes South Australia's Parliament on way to becoming law - ABC News 24 June 202 Voluntary Assisted Dying Legalised in South Australia South Australia (SA) has become the fourth Australian state to pass legislation to legalise euthanasia. The Voluntary Assisted...
  4. Occams Barber

    Do Not Resuscitate? - Real ethical decisions

    Do Not Resuscitate? My father is 100 years old. Late last year he was diagnosed with progressive dementia and certified incapable of looking after himself safely. As a result, I placed him into a very nice Aged Care facility. I am now his legal Guardian. Apart from dementia he is fit and...
  5. Quid est Veritas?

    Canada to expand "medically-assisted death"

    Canada proposes expanding access to assisted dying Well, as we all saw coming, Canada is set to expand what people are allowed to be euthanised. There will be a separate programme for terminal people and non-terminal ones with ill-defined 'suffering' to be put to death. Give it a few years, and...
  6. Occams Barber

    Western Aust Legalises Voluntary Euthanasia

    WA Passes Voluntary Euthanasia Legislation Following months of debate, including considering 55 amendments, the Western Australian (WA) Parliament has passed legislation allowing terminally ill people to end their own lives. To be eligible a person must be at least 18, and be terminally ill...
  7. Quid est Veritas?

    Case of Dutch woman held down to be euthanised is going to court

    Dutch doctor on trial in euthanasia case Remember that case where a doctor in the Netherlands forcibly held a dementia woman down in order to kill her? You know, after surreptitiously drugging her coffee failed, since she was so adamantly opposed to being put down? It has now gone to court, to...
  8. Quid est Veritas?

    Starving to death those with low prognosis - a Case in France.

    Life support fight over paralysed Frenchman to end There is a man in France, a tetraplegic called Vincent Lambert, who is set to die this week. He was involved in a motorcycle accident in 2008, and has had a low-level of intellectual function since (opening eyes, responding to pain, that kind...
  9. pantingdeer

    My guinea pig very ill. I don't believe is assisted death.

    My guinea pig Edmund has a tumour on his underbelly and he has also developed a problem called mallocussion which means his teeth have overgrown making it very hard for hime to eat and drink. He is losing weight rapidly and seems to gasp to air. The vet said it could be put down but I don't...
  10. Nick Moser

    British Gov euthanize brain-dead baby(RIP)

    Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old toddler at the centre of a High Court legal battle, has died, nearly a week after his life support was withdrawn. The boy from Merseyside, who had a degenerative brain condition, died at 02:30 BST, his father Tom Evans said. On Facebook he wrote: "My gladiator lay...
  11. J

    The Clock of Death: Abortion, Euthanasia, and Nuclear Warfare

    This'll probably be last thread I post on CF until October, I've got to focus more on College work now. The current Nuclear crisis in North Korea has brought to mind, an old talk by the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on the culture of death, which was only just taking-off in his time. I...
  12. HereIStand

    Catholic Institute Continues Euthanizing Patients In Psych Hospitals

    This euthanizing sounds scary.
  13. Zoii

    Health Care that may hasten the end of someones life

    people approach the end of life and everyone would say they would like a quick death with dignity. For many that isnt possible. Several levels of debates about medical intervention in this continue: Assisting death by administering a lethal drug for those with irreversible symptoms OR a step...
  14. Radrook

    Compassion for Animal Suffering VS Compassion for Humans

    There seems to be a big discrepancy among some humans between what they consider to be merciful behavior towards animals and compassionate behavior towards humans. They seem to feel that being human disqualifies a person from the same empathetic consideration which they readily express toward a...
  15. amariselle

    Bill C-14 (Canada's Assisted Dying Bill)

    There has been a lot said lately about Canada's Assisted Dying/Euthanasia Bill that will, if passed allow for the option of doctor assisted suicide to be presented to patients that meet certain criteria. (People such as the terminally ill and the elderly). Understandably, Bill C-14 has caused a...