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In 1997, Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalise physician-assisted suicide for people with a terminal illness. Since then, numbers have increased year-on-year, and this shows no sign of slowing. Last week, Oregon produced its 26th report. This shows that 2023 saw a 20 percent increase in assisted suicide compared to 2022, which itself had […]
Professor Patricia Casey
“Profound grief”
As Oireachtas committee recommends legalisation
Healy-Rae warns against assisted dying: “In Canada if you go into an A&E seeking assistance [with] psychiatric problems, medical problems, whatever, you’ll be handed a leaflet on assisted dying, & it will be offered to you, for all intents and purposes, as a healthcare option.”
Doctors speak out against assisted suicide.
Two assisted suicide reports offer competing visions
In their own words
Man seeking court intervention
The Commission reported that 110 patients came from abroad – mostly from France – to be euthanised.
“It cannot be limited or regulated”
Dying is certainly inevitable, but killing as an economy measure – euthanomics – is not.
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