Euthanasia
6/6/2011 | Euthanasia, Healthcare
Obama Regulatory Czar Backs Off Call for Gov't to Attach Lower Value to Older People
CNS News
President Barack Obama’s regulatory czar has retreated from a 2003 academic report in which he advocated that the government assign a higher monetary value to the lives of young people than to senior citizens.
Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, on Friday testified in front of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about the Obama administration’s plans for reviewing and reducing federal regulations.
“I’m a lot older now than the author with my name was, and I’m not sure what I think about what that young man wrote,” Sunstein, 56, told the House panel. “Things written as an academic are not a legitimate part of what we do as a government official. So I am not focusing on sentences that a young Cass Sunstein wrote years ago. So the answer is no.”
Sunstein wrote the paper when he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 2003, only eight years ago. It was titled “Lives, Life-Years, and Willingness to Pay.”
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Suicide Tourists Make Swiss Minister Uneasy as Terminally Ill Seek Escape
Bloomberg
Switzerland is the destination of choice for people from abroad who want to die. The office of the country’s top legal official is pushing to change that.
While assisted suicide is permitted in the Netherlands, Belgium and the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington and Montana, only Switzerland allows doctors to help foreigners end their lives. More than 25 percent of the 380 assisted suicides in Switzerland during 2009 involved foreigners, most of whom died after drinking water laced with a lethal dose of barbiturates.
Former Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, who was replaced by Simonetta Sommaruga in November, has proposed making the practice more difficult by demanding oversight by doctors who aren’t connected with one of the country’s four right-to-die organizations. Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland since 1942.
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Doctors back 'right to die' Consultation; But MDs oppose assisted suicide
Montreal Gazette
Euthanasia is already a reality in Quebec hospitals, the president of the federation of Quebec medical specialists, told a National Assembly committee yesterday.
Doctors know when death is "imminent and inevitable," Gaétan Barrette explained.
But doctors are aware they can be charged with murder if they administer a "palliative sedative" before a patient is on his or her last breath.
Geoffrey Kelley, chairman of the committee, explained that MNAs will hear about 30 expert witnesses on "dying with dignity" to prepare a paper for a travelling public consultation this fall.
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'No Such Thing As A Worthless Life'
World Net Daily
A priest who was with Terri Schiavo during her final hours in this life says society has it all wrong – because it does not understand the difference between a futile treatment and a futile life. Today is the second anniversary of the death of the disabled 41-year-old Florida woman, and Father Frank Pavone, of Priests for Life, shared some thoughts with WND to mark the second year since Terri died
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Physician-Assisted Suicide Bill Approved by California Judiciary Committee
Lifesite
SACRAMENTO, California, March 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide in California passed a 10-member Assembly Judiciary Committee March 27, bringing the measure one step closer to a legislative vote. The proposed legislation, AB 374, passed the Democrat-controlled committee in a 7-3 vote--Republicans cast the three dissenting votes while the seven Democrat members uniformly supported the measure. Called the California Compassionate Choices Act by authors Patty Berg and Lloyd Levine, the bill was introduced on Feb. 15, 2007.
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Vermont House Rejects Assisted Suicide - "Incredible Victory" Says Anti-Euthanasia Leader
Life Site
MONTPELIER, Vermont, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vermont House of Representatives voted against a proposal yesterday that would have made the state the second in the country to permit physician-assisted suicide, following Oregon. House members voted 82-63 against the measure euphemistically entitled "Patient Choice and Control at End of Life," after a week of impassioned debate on the issue, the Associated Press reported. The legislation would have made it legal for a doctor to assist a patient with a terminal illness to commit suicide by prescribe lethal medication. "In my view, (the bill) goes too far in enforcing one group's preferences on the traditional values of others," said Rep. Harvey Otterman.
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