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Euthanasia

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  1. Food Safety News

    Gravy Train, Ol’ Roy, other brands pulled for euthanasia drug

    By Phyllis Entis

    The J.M. Smucker Co. has voluntarily withdrawn certain shipments of 27 different pet food products following media reports of pentobarbital contamination in some of its Gravy Train dog food. Pentobarbital…

  2. The Right Coast

    Euthanasia & Netherlands: Mentally Ill Woman Killed | National Review

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Compassionately caring for the severely mentally ill is a challenge for every society. Many countries, including ours, are failing that challenge. Patients suffering from schizophrenia and other severe psychiatric disorders…

  3. The Right Coast

    Euthanasia & Netherlands: Mentally Ill Woman Killed | National Review

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Compassionately caring for the severely mentally ill is a challenge for every society. Many countries, including ours, are failing that challenge. Patients suffering from schizophrenia and other severe psychiatric disorders…

  4. The Right Coast

    Dutch doctors euthanise 29-year-old woman with depression | CatholicHerald.co.uk

    By Thomas A. Smith

    In recent years, Miss Brouwers had become a prominent campaigner in the Netherlands for euthanasia for the mentally-ill and the young.She had pressed Dutch MPs to further liberalise a 16-year-old…

  5. The Right Coast

    Dutch doctors euthanise 29-year-old woman with depression | CatholicHerald.co.uk

    By Thomas A. Smith

    In recent years, Miss Brouwers had become a prominent campaigner in the Netherlands for euthanasia for the mentally-ill and the young.She had pressed Dutch MPs to further liberalise a 16-year-old…

  6. Elder Law Prof Blog

    Netherlands: Examining Physician’s Actions in Euthanasia Death of 74-Year Old Woman with Dementia

    By Katherine C. Pearson

    As my blogging colleague Becky Morgan has highlighted in two of her posts this week, about a February conference at Hastings and recent proposals for "dementia advance directives," end-of-life decisions…

  7. Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog

    Elderly Couple Got ‘Deepest Wish’ — to Die Together — in Rare Euthanasia Case

    By Gerry W. Beyer

    Nic and Trees Elderhorst wanted to die together. Both were 91 years old and suffering from declining health. Nic had had a stroke in 2012 and Trees had been recently…

  8. The Right Coast

    Single payer and Charlie Gard: When euthanasia becomes a duty – Hot Air Hot Air

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The precedent established by Charlie Gard s case will metastasize, as similar decisions have. It will be made to apply to children with more-familiar illnesses and better prognoses; it will…

  9. The Right Coast

    Single payer and Charlie Gard: When euthanasia becomes a duty – Hot Air Hot Air

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The precedent established by Charlie Gard s case will metastasize, as similar decisions have. It will be made to apply to children with more-familiar illnesses and better prognoses; it will…

  10. Food Safety News

    Evanger’s escalates war of words, challenges FDA investigation

    By Phyllis Entis

    A family-owned pet food company under investigation after a euthanasia drug was found in its canned dog food has taken its dispute with the FDA to the public. On March…