VIDEO: « L’euthanasie en Belgique : impossible de baliser et contrôler » selon le Professeur Dr Etienne Montero

Lors d’une conférence de presse, le Professeur Dr Etienne Montero, Doyen de la faculté de droit, Université de Namur, Belgique, a dressé un bilan de 11 ans d’euthanasie en Belgique.  Les plus grands promoteurs de l’euthanasie en Belgique reconnaissent que la plupart des demandes d’euthanasie ne trouvent pas leur origine dans la souffrance physique, qui peut être maîtrisée, mais dans une souffrance psychologique : perte de sens, solitude, lassitude de vivre, besoin de maîtriser sa mort…  Dans une situation de souffrance, une demande d’euthanasie est compréhensible, mais la société ne peut pas s’adjuger le droit d’y accéder sans se mettre en danger. Tous les citoyens se trouvent menacés par les risques d’abus et de dérives.

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Physician-assisted suicide encourages people with years to live to throw away their lives: an Oregon cancer doctor and his patient tell their story and warns Quebecers

Date: October 25, 2013
Time: 10:30 am
Location: Auberge Bonaparte
447, rue Saint-François-Xavier
Montréal, QC H2Y 2T1
(Beside the Centaur Theatre)

The Coalition of Physicians for Social Justice presents a doctor and his patient from Oregon where assisted suicide is legal.

Dr Kenneth Stevens is a practicing cancer doctor with more than 40 years’ experience. He is also a Professor Emeritus and a former Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon. He has treated thousands of patients with cancer.

Jeanette Hall, Dr. Stevens’ patient, is thrilled to be alive 13 years after he talked her out of “doing” Oregon’s law, i.e., killing herself with a lethal dose of barbiturates.

In 2000, Jeanette was diagnosed with cancer by another doctor and told that she had six months to a year to live. This was without treatment. The other doctor had referred her to Dr. Stevens for radiation and chemotherapy. Jeanette, however, had voted for Oregon’s law. She had made a firm decision to go forward with Oregon’s law instead.

Dr. Stevens did not believe in assisted suicide. He also believed that Jeanette’s prospects for treatment were good. He convinced her to be treated instead of doing Oregon’s law.

Dr. Stevens will talk about how the mere existence of legal assisted suicide steered Jeanette Hall to suicide. He will also talk about how financial incentives in Oregon’s government health plan also steer patients to suicide. Dr. Stevens warns how if assisted suicide or euthanasia is legalized in Quebec, then the Quebec government health program could follow a similar pattern—that is, to pay for people to die, but not to live.

Dr. Paul Saba, a family physician and co-president of the Coalition of Physicians for Social Justice will demonstrate how Québec’s proposed euthanasia law will encourage people, including young adults with treatable conditions, to agree to euthanasia and throw away their lives.

The Coalition’s position against euthanasia is supported by the World Medical Association representing nine million physicians.

Saving Money, not Lives. Oregon limits life extending cancer treatment, offers assisted suicide instead

VIDEO:Barbara Wagner – Denied Cancer Treatment, encouraged to take assisted suicide instead

 

In 2008, Barbara Wagner wanted to continue fighting for her life and continuing cancer treatment. Her doctor recommended a treatment that could help extend her life, but the government sent her a letter declining coverage for the drug, but offering to pay for comfort care including physician aid in dying…

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