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While Kretchmar's killing received parental consent, most of the 5,000 to 8,000 children killed afterwards were forcibly taken from their parents. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] The "euthanasia campaign" of mass murder gathered momentum on 14 January 1940 when the "handicapped" were killed with gas vans and at killing centres, eventually leading to the deaths ...
Decriminalisation of euthanasia in Australia is supported by multiple political parties such as the Australian Greens, [141] the Fusion Party, [142] the Libertarian Party, [143] and Reason Australia. Though it is usually a conscience vote for the major parties such as the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition.
Voluntary euthanasia is the purposeful ending of another person's life at their request, in order to relieve them of suffering.Voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) have been the focus of intense debate in the 21st century, surrounding the idea of a right to die.
As applied to the euthanasia debate, the slippery slope argument claims that the acceptance of certain practices, such as physician-assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia, will invariably lead to the acceptance or practice of concepts which are currently deemed unacceptable, such as non-voluntary or involuntary euthanasia.
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.
Physician assisted suicide is currently legal in all Australian states: New South Wales, [96] Victoria, [108] South Australia, Western Australia, [109] Tasmania [110] and Queensland. [111] It remains illegal in all Australian territories, however the Australian Capital Territory plans to legalise this by 2024, [ 112 ] and the Northern Territory ...
BlackBerry is doing the inevitable, informing its subscribers that it will be shutting down its BBM Music service in two months. The late 2011 rollout of BBM Music was flawed from the start. The ...
The Catholic Church opposes active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide on the grounds that life is a gift from God and should not be prematurely shortened. However, the church allows dying people to refuse extraordinary treatments that would minimally prolong life without hope of recovery, [5] a form of passive euthanasia.