WHATEVER one might think of our new Lib-Con Government, there’s very good cause to lament the absence in the new coalition of Dr Evan Harris, who lost his Oxford West & Abingdon seat by fewer than 200 votes. Harris had been the target of campaigns by at least two priests, one of whom was behind [...]
Welcome to the final part of PETER BRIETBART’S interview with Professor A C GRAYLING. Here we ask what Eutopia might look like, what lies in store for the future of humanity, where the best philosophy is to be found and whether the right to die should be a legal right. PB: In your view, and, [...]
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I HAD no idea until last night that King George V had been fast-tracked to oblivion when, in 1935, he was given a lethal injection in the neck. This fact was revealed when prominent British euthanasia supporter, Dr Michael Irwin – addressing a packed meeting of the Brighton & Hove Humanist Society – provided a [...]
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WE at the Freethinker rarely get the opportunity to praise members of the clergy, but today we salute the Rev David Coleman, of the United Reform Church in Brighton, for allowing Dr Philip Nitschke to hold a public discussion on euthanasia at the church-owned Brighthelm Centre yesterday. True, Rev Coleman – in the face of [...]
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ELUANA Englaro, the comatose woman at the centre of a euthanasia row that has divided Italy and sparked a constitutional crisis, died last night at the age of 38, four days after doctors began to remove her life support. Said a senior Vatican official: May the Lord welcome her and pardon those who brought her [...]
Continue reading about Eluana Englaro’s death unleashes a torrent of Catholic claptrap
THE Pope has been banging on about euthanasia in the midst of a row raging in Italy over Eluana Englaro, a woman who has been in a vegetative state for 17 years, following a car crash. Two years after her 1992 accident, doctors said Englaro’s condition was irreversible. This week, Englaro, 38, was moved from [...]
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