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articles, click on the title.
Shameful
Country that Makes the Old Suffer So
By Stephen
Clarke
An article in the New York Times.
Party
of Pain
By John
Tierney
A retirement article by a sub-editor from the
Melbourne Age.
Amid Comfort and Kindness,
a 'Contrarian' Bids Adieu
By Pamela Bone
An account of events in the Isle of Man
A Civilised Insurrection
By Stuart Hartill
A
recent article from the Journal for the Scientific Study of
Religion.
Do Attitudes Toward Physician-assisted
Suicide and Terminal Palliative Care Vary by Religion?
An interesting insight into the likely way end-of-life
issues will change over the next 35 years.
The
Sanctity of Life
By Peter Singer
An article published in Scientific American, June
2005, about Russel Ogden & his study of underground assisted
suicide & euthanasia.
A
Culture of Death
By Diane Martindale
An article published in The Age, Melbourne, May
16, 2005
Curtailing Our Right to Know About the Right to Die with Dignity
By Fiona Stewart
An excellent article published in the Guardian,
UK, on 25 March 2005
The Myth of Dying
By Polly Toynbee
An account of the new censorship laws being proposed
in Australia
Censorship Law Debated in Australia
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published an article on 6 April,
2005 which is well worth reading.
The Right to Die is Fundamental
Well expressed observations on the Terri Schiavo
case from the The Advertiser, Adelaide
We Treat Animals with More Dignity
By Angela Goode
An article by Dr. Philip Nitschke on the Peaceful
Pill Project
Hard Pill to Swallow
An article on the religious right in Australia
God under Howard: The rise of the Religious Right in Australia
Reviewed by Muriel Porter
An article in the Guardian about Dignitas & how
it operates.
How the Charity Helps People to Die
By John Martin
Britain is one of the few European countries where assisting
suicide is still a crime. A report in the Observer on the growing
euthanasia debate and the people it most affects
'I don't Want to Plan my Death, I Want to Enjoy Life'
By Jamie Doward
An article by Frank Haden of the Sunday Star-Times,
on the Lesley Martin trial.
Euthanasia Trial Verdict Wrong on all Counts
A talk given on Australia's ABC Radio by Kep
Enderby, a distinguished judge, a Federal Minister in the Government
of Gough Whitlam, and a person who has done much to foster debate
on matters of life and death, cruelty and mercy, civil rights
and their denial.
Voluntary
Euthanasia
By Kep Enderby QC.
Annual Global Report
Choices
When Dying - 2003
by
Michael Irwin MD
President, World Federation of Right to Die Societies
An account of the Robert
Latimer case in Canada
Latimer
10 years on: No regrets
Toronto Star Jan. 24, 2004
Mary Warnock, who once
sat on a Lords committee that rejected legalising euthanasia,
has since watched her husband die and now says the law should
be changed
I Made a Bad Law -
We Should Help the Ill to Die
By Mary Warnock
A
hard-hitting article from a Belgian perspective originally published
in 'La Libre Belgique,' 1 October 2003. (See about the case
referred to in the French news).
What If Vincent Humbert
Had Resided in Belgium ?
by Marc Englert, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Free University of Brussels.
Member of the Belgian Federal Commission of Control and Evaluation
of Euthanasia
An
article from the Sunday Times (UK) of 14 September 2003
This Tide of Human
Suffering that Cries out for Euthanasia
by John Humphrys
An
account of a valuable service that Dignitas (Switzerland) is
offering foreign patients
A
Swiss Assisted Suicide Experience
by ERGO
But the Dignitas service is not
without controversy in Switzerland
Switzerland - Death
Tourism Capital ?
by Isobel Johnson - Swissinfo, 14 September 2003
Text
of a speech which was presented to the Voluntary Euthanasia
Society in Auckland, on 22 March 2003 by:
Jan
Crosthwaite
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Download an NZ Parliament research
article on Voluntary Euthanasia
(in Adobe Acrobat format)
Voluntary
Euthanasia and New Zealand
Read a commentary on freedom of choice
in the USA
'The Freest Nation
in the World'?
by
Peter Singer,
DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for
Human Values at Princeton University
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