I’ve been working with dementia patients for quite a while now, assisting aging individuals at various stages ranging from mobile, literate and continent, to well – not. It is everything that [...]
Suicide among the elderly and in the disabled community is a serious problem. Chronic pain, depression and isolation are especially prevalent among those groups – these risk factors lead to [...]
My next door neighbour Clifford was diagnosed with end-stage cancer last year. His oncologist gave him three months to live. He slipped into a deep depression at the thought that he was going to [...]
I was walking with a senior doctor last Friday as we left one of the geriatric wards. He was in a good mood, and turned to me with a grin on his face. Half jokingly, he said to me, “You [...]
With the same party that had an MP who wanted the government to pay welfare recipients to get sterilised positioning itself as a self-styled assisted-suicide party with plans underway for [...]
Cross-posted from Euthanasia-Free NZ. The wider implications of assisted suicide legislation need to be considered “I wish to convey our deep condolences to Lecretia Seales’ family and friends”, [...]
The following report has not seemed to generate much media interest although it is extremely troubling and also extremely relevant to the euthanasia debate which is simmering away in the [...]
Image reference: A group protests against euthanasia in France. Over the past 20-odd years New Zealand has seen three legislative attempts to legalise euthanasia. Only the first (1995) went [...]
