Olympia, WA (LifeNews.com) — A new report from the Washington health department reveals at least 36 people died after they killed themselves under the first year of the state’s new law legalizing assisted suicides. The law was only enacted for nine months during 2009 after voters approved it on the 2008 ballot. Read the rest [...]
Archive for the ‘Physician Assisted Suicide’ Category
Death’s High Carnival in Washington
Posted in Abortion, Physician Assisted Suicide, tagged Abortion, Physician Assisted Suicide on March 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Mother Accused of Murdering Brain-Damaged Son ‘looked up euthanasia on internet’
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide, tagged Euthanasia, Frances Inglis on January 7, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Across the Pond, The Telegraph brings us the story of Frances Inglis, 57, a mother who was training to be a nurse and was driven ‘insane’ by the thought that her brain damaged son Tom was suffering. Inglis killed her son with a heroin overdose, after searching the internet for methods of performing euthanasia. Perhaps [...]
Montana Supreme Court Approves Physician Assisted Suicide
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Dignity, Eugenics, Personhood, Physician Assisted Suicide, tagged Physician Assisted Suicide, Montana, Death With Dignity on January 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Montana has become the third state to approve physician-assisted suicide, after a divided State Supreme Court voted in a 5-3 ruling that said physician assisted suicide violates no laws . Read it here in the Christian Science Monitor. As curtjester noted on a post below, once again it’s the courts doing the dirty work. Death [...]
