Two relatively healthy autistic women are set to be executed by their respective governments one in the Netherlands, the first country to legalize so-called euthanasia, and the other in Canada, another northern nation where more than 4% of all annual deaths are now the result of state-facilitate.
A bipatisan Senate duo is expressing concern about a proposal to drop the words "lengthen life" from the National Institutes of Health mission statement
The move comes amid concerns that people are asking for assisted suicide not because of poor health, but due to poverty, lack of housing or extreme loneliness.
A Canadian woman cited lack of medical assistance as her reason for choosing assisted suicide. She pointed to the long waiting time for surgeries as a major reason for her choice to undergo [.]