Tag: Euthanasia
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Assisted dying bill passed in England and Wales despite strong religious opposition
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. CHRISTIAN Concern, a UK-based band of hateful religious zealots, just learned a valuable lessons today: the non-existent God they believe in is deaf to prayer. Ahead of a vote that will finally give people in England and Wales the right…
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UK Church leaders are clamouring to obstruct assisted dying in the UK
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. AHEAD of the first reading in Parliament this week of a bill that would give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to end their lives, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, centre, repeated the tired old “slippery…
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Swiss bishop condemns hi-tech suicide pod. ‘It makes suicide too easy to access.’
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. IN 2009 years ago I attended a suicide workshop held in the UK seaside city of Brighton by Philip Nitschke, an Australian physician known for advocating assisted suicide since the 1990s. The methods he advocated for ending one’s life were…
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We grant our pets a merciful death so why block euthanasia for humans whose lives aren’t worth living?
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. FOR weeks my husband and I have been agonising over whether to make a call that would end a life of a cherished companion. But today I finally seized the phone and called our vet and asked her to euthanise…
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Euthanasia law passed in Portugal despite strong religious opposition and a presidential veto
BACK in March of this year, Portugal’s Catholic bishops got a bit ahead of themselves when they congratulated the country’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, above, for vetoing a proposed euthanasia bill. De Sousa is a “devout churchgoer.” Their joy was short-lived. Despite the veto, the lawmakers yesterday (Friday) passed a law that will enable…
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