スイスの自殺幇助関連情報 Goodall氏関連で
豪の104歳最年長科学者 Goodall氏が
Dr. Deathの主催するExit Internationalなどの支援を受けて、
バーゼルのライフサークルで幇助自殺を遂げるべく、
スイスに向かった（昨日到着）ことが話題になる中、
Dr. Deathの主催するExit Internationalなどの支援を受けて、
バーゼルのライフサークルで幇助自殺を遂げるべく、
スイスに向かった（昨日到着）ことが話題になる中、
スイスの自殺幇助団体、Exit, Dignitas, LifeCircleについて
事実関係を整理した記事。
事実関係を整理した記事。
【10日追記】
10日に幇助自殺実行予定のGoodall氏が前日に記者会見したとの報道に、以下のデータ。
10日に幇助自殺実行予定のGoodall氏が前日に記者会見したとの報道に、以下のデータ。
The Swiss federal statistics office says the number of assisted suicides has been growing fast: Nine years ago, there were 297. By 2015, the most recent year tabulated, the figure had more than tripled to 965. Nearly 15 percent of the cases last year were people under 65 years old.
【11日追記】
Goodallさん、予告どおりに10日幇助自殺。
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-david-goodall-assisted-suicide-20180510-story.html
Goodallさん、予告どおりに10日幇助自殺。
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-david-goodall-assisted-suicide-20180510-story.html
【13日追記】
さすがに、ニチキ医師への非難が出ている。前日のインタビューでも隣に映って、いそいそと仕切っていた。
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5716433/Dr-Death-Philip-Nitschke-offers-free-euthanasia-group-membership-David-Goodall-death.html
さすがに、ニチキ医師への非難が出ている。前日のインタビューでも隣に映って、いそいそと仕切っていた。
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5716433/Dr-Death-Philip-Nitschke-offers-free-euthanasia-group-membership-David-Goodall-death.html
注目情報として、Exit Internationalは90歳以上の高齢者の会費を無料としている、など。
【14日追記】
Not Dead Yetのステファン・ドレイクのコメントがいつもながら鋭い
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/disability-groups-oppose-using-botanists-death-to-advance-assisted-suicide-agenda-82488
Not Dead Yetのステファン・ドレイクのコメントがいつもながら鋭い
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/disability-groups-oppose-using-botanists-death-to-advance-assisted-suicide-agenda-82488
It was clear he wanted to go out while getting a lot of attention,” said Stephen Drake, a research analyst with the advocacy group Not Dead Yet, a disability rights group which opposes the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia “as deadly forms of discrimination.”
“If someone acts as he does, for people to call it a personal act is a lie; it was a political act,” Drake told CNA.
“If someone acts as he does, for people to call it a personal act is a lie; it was a political act,” Drake told CNA.
However, Goodall’s case demonstrates that this is only the beginning for assisted suicide advocates, Drake noted.
Terminal illness is “the wedge issue that most people can agree on, that opens the door,” he said.
“Once you open the door, then the campaign becomes to kick it open as far as you can, and it shows that opponents in Australia who’ve been fighting to prevent the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia are right on target when they say that this will begin to expand in very short order,” he added.
“Now the cause will be: why are we preventing poor old people from ending their lives?” he said.
Other vulnerable and undervalued populations, such as the poor and disabled, will be similarly at risk, he noted.
Terminal illness is “the wedge issue that most people can agree on, that opens the door,” he said.
“Once you open the door, then the campaign becomes to kick it open as far as you can, and it shows that opponents in Australia who’ve been fighting to prevent the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia are right on target when they say that this will begin to expand in very short order,” he added.
“Now the cause will be: why are we preventing poor old people from ending their lives?” he said.
Other vulnerable and undervalued populations, such as the poor and disabled, will be similarly at risk, he noted.
“As technology advances, as medical costs skyrocket out of control, as chronic diseases predominate, as the projected rate of the eighty-five-and-older population accelerates, as managed care seeks to cut costs and as Medicare is predicted to go bankrupt by 2007, the impetus of cost containment provide impetus, whether openly acknowledged or not, for the practicalities of an assisted death,” Humphry wrote in his book Freedom to Die: people, politics, and the right-to-die movement.
Drake noted: “It’s one thing for me to say that, it’s another thing for Derek Humphry, who embodies the assisted suicide movement, to say it.”
Drake said that advocates for assisted suicide “either discount those concerns or frankly they don’t care, they figure the people who might be hurt by this won’t be them, and I think that’s what it boils down to.”
Drake noted: “It’s one thing for me to say that, it’s another thing for Derek Humphry, who embodies the assisted suicide movement, to say it.”
Drake said that advocates for assisted suicide “either discount those concerns or frankly they don’t care, they figure the people who might be hurt by this won’t be them, and I think that’s what it boils down to.”
