HWN Suggests

Time To Terminate "Assisted Dying"

The temptation to use euthanasia as a solution will only increase as populations age and as cash-strapped governments and insurers scramble to find ways to reduce growing healthcare costs. It should be axiomatic that life is sacrosanct, whether or not you are religious.

In recent times we have seen enormous medical advances that not only prolong life but also improve the quality of life as we age. The answer to the rising costs of healthcare is the creation of genuine free markets, which always turn scarcity into abundance. There is precious little in the way of free markets in healthcare. Third parties, primarily governments and insurers--not the patients--still dominate. This is…

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How Dutch Law Got a Little Too Comfortable With Euthanasia

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On Assisted Suicide, Going Beyond ‘Do No Harm’

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Resources

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

To prepare a well-informed, broadly-based network of organizations and individuals supporting measures that will create an effective social barrier to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Care Not Killing

Promoting care, opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Fatal Flaws

A thought-provoking journey through Europe and North America to ask one of the most fundamental philosophical questions of our time: should we be giving doctors the right in law to end the life of others by euthanasia or assisted suicide? Filmmaker Kevin Dunn uses powerful testimonies and expert opinion from both sides of the issue to uncover how these highly disputed laws affect society over time.

HOPE

HOPE is a coalition of groups and individuals who oppose the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide and support measures that will make euthanasia and assisted suicide unthinkable.

Not Dead Yet

Not Dead Yet is a national, grassroots disability rights group that opposes legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia as deadly forms of discrimination.

Not Dead Yet Aotearoa

Not Dead Yet Aotearoa is a focus for disabled peoples' voices in NZ against euthanasia and PAS legislation.

Still Alive-Not Dead Yet

Still Alive-Not Dead Yet is a project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities to unify and give voice to people with disabilities who oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide. TVNDY is a bilingual, progressive, non-religious organization that provides educational services to realize equal rights and the full range of choices guaranteed by law.

Canadian Physicians for Life

We promote healthcare in the Hippocratic tradition that situates the patient’s good at the heart of all medical practice. We believe that the proper goal of medical science and, therefore, of its practitioners is to preserve and protect human life, to relieve suffering, and to promote healing.

Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia

The Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia was founded in 2012 by 24 Quebec doctors, in response to the report of the Quebec government’s Select Committee on Dying with Dignity, which recommended legalization of euthanasia in Quebec, redefining it as health care to escape the Canadian Criminal code prohibition of causing the death of any person, even with his or her consent.

Right to Life Australia

The Right to Life Australia Inc. is a non-denominational, non-party political incorporated association. We work to uphold the right to life of all human beings from conception until natural death. We initiate and develop public educational campaigns for legal protection of the most vulnerable in society – the unborn baby, elderly, sick and those with disabilities.

Second Thoughts MA

Second Thoughts MA is a grassroots group of disability rights advocates from Massachusetts and the region who oppose the legalization of assisted suicide as a deadly form of discrimination against disabled people.