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September 23, 2020
Fake News Alert: the State of Hawaii did not purchase 30 Sarcos!
In a Facebook post on 16 August 2020, the State of Hawaii reported the following: “As of January 1st, 2019, the state of Hawaii legalized assisted suicide. With the legalization, doctors can now prescribe death as a medical procedure. To aid Hawaii’s medical providers, we have purchased 30 passing assistance pods. These pods/machines are prescribed […]
September 10, 2020
Irish Campaigners support allowing terminally ill people to end their own lives
Irish Examiner, Daniel McConnell
Leading cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan and Tom Curran, husband of Marie Fleming, will publicly voice their support for a new bill aimed at allowing terminally ill people end their own lives. Ms Phelan, Mr Curran, and Gail O’Rorke — who was acquitted of attempting to help her friend Bernadette Ford travel to a euthanasia clinic […]
September 6, 2020
Alain Cocq: Facebook Prevents Incurably Ill Man from Live Death
Facebook says it will prevent a Frenchman suffering from an incurable disease from broadcasting live his own death. Alain Cocq, 57, was planning to air his final days after starting to refuse food, drink and medicine on Saturday. President Emmanuel Macron had previously rejected his request for euthanasia. Mr. Cocq wants the law in France […]
August 25, 2020
Meet the woman campaigning for her right to die just for being old
Jacqueline Jencquel has been campaigning for the right to die for the past ten years. She gained popularity as a lobbyist for the cause after a Swiss newspaper came across her blog “La vieillesse est une maladie incurable” (Old age is an incurable disease). Jencquel is 76 years old, she’s not suffering from any serious […]
August 16, 2020
Professor Sean Davison struck off register in New Zealand
IOL Cape Times, Francesca Villette
Cape Town – Euthanasia advocate Professor Sean Davison’s plans to move back to his birth country have been abandoned after he was charged with professional misconduct and struck off the medical register in New Zealand. He said he still failed to understand why “helping three men to end their unbearable suffering” made him unfit to […]
July 14, 2020
Is Pentobarbital ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment? Executions to Go Ahead
On Monday 13 July, it was reported that a Federal Court of Appeals Judge in Washington DC blocked the four federal executions schedule for July / August 2020 in various US states because ‘pentobarbital-only’ executions were argued to pose “an unconstitutionally significant risk of serious pain.” The US Supreme Court has since stepped in. Listen […]