…suicide? Derek Humphrey, the founder of the Hemlock Society – better known today as Compassion and Choices – aptly stated “Surveys have consistently found that most people would rather continue living at home rather than in a nursing home. What has not been known until recently, however, is that the aversion to ‘such a facility is so strong that 30% of those surveyed said they would rather die than live permanently in a nursing home.’” Well, on th…
…suicide? Derek Humphrey, the founder of the Hemlock Society – better known today as Compassion and Choices – aptly stated “Surveys have consistently found that most people would rather continue living at home rather than in a nursing home. What has not been known until recently, however, is that the aversion to ‘such a facility is so strong that 30% of those surveyed said they would rather die than live permanently in a nursing home.’” Well, on th…
…3/03/08/aas-update-on-previous-statement/ because it was used in the 2019 Truchon decision that expanded assisted suicide to disabled Canadians. https://twitter.com/TrudoLemmens/status/1666067817035190272 , which was opposed by the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention. https://suicideprevention.ca/media/statement-on-recent-maid-developments/ The consequences of the AAS’s statement are an example of how green lighting assisted suicide for th…
…Field, looked into 48 cases of nurses murdering their patients around the world and found that 38 of those were serial killers. John Field spoke to Nance Haxton in Adelaide. JOHN FIELD: The most common method of murdering was by lethal injection. It became obvious to me that murder of a patient by nurses can happen anywhere, but I think that the nurses who do murder patients, particularly the serial killers, would be serial killers whether they w…
…ined how Compassion & Choices had tried to get the Editorial Boards of the newspapers in California, where an assisted suicide bill had been presented, to change their language use from assisted suicide to “aid in dying”. The speaker also explained how they were working to get professional organizations to adopt the term “aid in dying”. Returning now – and hoping people follow me – to the commentary by Christopher Hayes. He went on to relate the f…
