Archbishop's euthanasia warning: 'Right to die could become a duty to die'

Archbishop's euthanasia warning: 'Right to die could become a duty to die'

A proposal to introduce voluntary assisted euthanasia would turn doctors’ duty of care into a “duty to kill”, Archbishop Charles Scicluna has warned.In a pastoral letter to be read out in Churches across Malta and Gozo on Sunday, the archbishop described the proposal as a “dangerous step” that undermines the value of human life and...

Do Patients Without a Terminal Illness Have the Right to Die?

(New York Times) — When Canada’s first MAID law, Bill C-14, passed in 2016, it was reserved for those who were over 18, eligible for health care and mentally competent to consent to death. They needed to have a “serious and incurable illness, disease or disability”; be in an “advanced state of irreversible decline in capability”; and have “enduring physical or psychological suffering” that was “intolerable.” Their natural deaths also had to be “…