Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Hartheim May 2, 2024 I will be speaking at a conference in Germany on Saturday, so I decided to go to Germany for few days to visit some of the T-4 euthanasia killing sites. I decided to first visit the euthanasia memorial at the Grafeneck psychiatric facility because it was the first of the T-4 euthanasia euthanasia sites. Today I visited the Hartheim castle euthanasia memorial. 18,269 people were killed under the T-4 euthanasia program and at least 30,000 people in total were gassed to death at Hartheim. I have b ..read more

Grafeneck gate Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I will be speaking at a conference in Germany on Saturday, so I decided to go to Germany for few days to visit a some of the T-4 euthanasia sites. Today I visited the euthanasia memorial at the Grafeneck psychiatric hospital where it is believed that 10,654 people were gassed to death. I have been reading more about the T-4 euthanasia program because history is repeating itself. In September 2023, while I was in Berlin Germany to speak at a conference, I went to the Euthanasia Memorial located at Tie ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The assisted suicide lobby announced in their fundraising email on April 29, 2024 that they are spearheading a bill to force American to pay for assisted suicide (Medically approved killing by poison) with their tax dollars. The fundraising letter states: The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act would end a ban on federal funding to help terminally ill people pay for medical aid in dying where it is currently authorized or will be authorized in the future. The Patient Access to End-of-Life Act is sponsored by Representati ..read more

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition upholds that the Canadian federal budget announcement that people with disabilities, who qualify, can receive $200 more per month, is an insufficient amount to meet the basic needs of Canadians with disabilities. Alex Schadenberg Meghan Schrader Message from the Meghan Schrader Instead of robustly funding the Disability Benefit that Canadian disability rights advocates had hoped would lift poor people with disabilities at least up to the poverty line, Justin Trudeau’s government allocated only $200 a month for the new benefit (twitter comment) and a ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Help the Calgary father of the 27-year-old autistic woman stop his daughter from being killed by euthanasia by donating to his legal expenses. (Link to the GiveSendGo campaign). I reported on April 9, 2024 that the Calgary father was granted an injunction preventing the euthanasia death of his 27-year-old autistic daughter until the Alberta Court of Appeal decides on his legal challenge to the decision to approve his daughters euthanasia death. Due to the publication ban, we can only refer to the father as WV and his daught ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Dr Ramona Coelho An excellent interview of Dr Ramona Coelho by Jonathon Van Maren was published in the European Conservative on April 24, 2024.  As stated by Van Maren, Dr Coelho is a family physician in London, Ontario, with a practice largely serving marginalized patients, she has testified before Parliament, laid out the dangers of legal euthanasia on TV and in print, and presciently warned policymakers of many of the scenarios we now see unfolding. Dr Coelho is a leading voice opposing Canada's euthanasia re ..read more

Dear Senator EPC-USA's Fact Sheet is testimony regarding the social harms attached to assisted suicide legislation like HB1283. However, given that assisted suicide’s negative impact is going to fall primarily on the disabled community, the EPC felt that we should submit a more detailed analysis of how assisted suicide undermines disability rights, and whose advice on this matter ought to be heeded by members of the Assembly. Members of the EPC board with training in the fields of disability studies and advocacy have noted that some assisted suicide advocates are trying to hijack disability ..read more

This letter was sent to elected representatives in the British Parliament and shared with EPC. Ann Farmer Dear ...  As your constituent I am writing to draw your attention to the above debate, in the hope that you will be able to attend and speak against attempts to legalise assisted suicide/euthanasia, now going under the euphemism 'assisted dying'. Given the appalling outcomes reported from those jurisdictions that have gone down this route, most notoriously Canada, where 'strict safeguards' have been swiftly dismantled to allow death for disability and also poverty, https://a ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Amy Smith While cleaning up my emails I came across this excellent commentary by Amy Smith, who is a physician-assistant in Minnesota titled: Pledge to 'do no harm' and say No to physician-assisted suicide. Smith's commentary was published in the Minnesota Reformer on April 13, 2024. Smith begins her article by explaining why she opposes assisted suicide. I’ve spent the past 20 years of my career as a physician assistant saving lives in the emergency department. On a daily basis, I pledge to “do no harm” to my patien ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director,  Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Professor David Jones Georgia Edkins, the Scottish Political Editor for the Daily Mail reported on April 20, 2024 that 16 year-olds with Anorexia could be approved for assisted suicide under Scotland's assisted dying bill. Edkins reports: Teenagers with anorexia could apply for state-backed ‘suicide’ under ‘extremely dubious’ laws proposed in Scotland, experts warned last night. Newly published Holyrood legislation would allow NHS patients to request prescriptions for a life-ending cocktail of drugs that indu ..read more