Recent world headlines, including the following ones from APnews.com, show us that the practice of euthanasia, once thought to be rare, is becoming more and more accepted around the world.
- Voluntary Euthanasia Becomes Legal in Australia State
- Spanish Government Passes First Hurdle to Legalize Euthanasia
- Amid Protests, Portugal Lawmakers vote to Allow Euthanasia
Promoters of legislation to legalize euthanasia evade the truth by using softer terms – “death with dignity,” “end-of-life option,” “medical assistance in dying,” etc. This is a deadly game of “let’s pretend,” but the far-reaching dreadful consequences of euthanasia are very real.
Alex Schadenberg, a member of the HALO Advisory Board and Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, focuses our attention on a bill to extend euthanasia in the Netherlands to people who are merely “tired of living.” Learn more at Dangerous “Completed Life” bill would extend euthanasia in the Netherlands to healthy people.
A group of American euthanasia activists have started a Completed Life Initiative in collaboration with End of Life Choices New York. The idea that it is compassionate to medically assist anyone, at any stage of life to commit suicide is a deadly deception. We know instinctively that taking one’s own life is not decent or dignified, not a choice to be encouraged or aided; nor is assisting another to kill himself or herself a praiseworthy act.
See HALO’s Information Sheet on Assisted Suicide for more information.