Sentences with phrase «euthanasia killings of people»

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When euthanasia critics accuse him of killing people, he said he always responds, «Well, I only kill my friends.»

These people would also be opposed to infanticide, euthanasia and mercy killing, especially when someone other than the target of the «mercy» is making the decision.

The head of a controversial assisted - suicide group in Switzerland says he will seek legal permission to help a Canadian woman and other healthy people like her kill themselves, raising startling new issues in the emotional debate over euthanasia.

Canada's pending legislation on euthanasia and assisted suicide raises a question: What shall we call people who are legally involved in the destruction of human life — particularly those who do the actual killing?

Yet, when condemning the killing of sick and disabled people, the Holy Father also denounces «other more furtive, but no less serious and real, forms of euthanasia.»

Some opponents of euthanasia espouse the domino theory: if we permit euthanasia, we'll soon be killing retarded people, then the elderly, and then people whose ears are too large.

His new series, Mary Kills People, a black comedy about the controversial practice of euthanasia, is something very different.

«If people knew they were killing animals this way because they wanted to make budget cuts, I'm sure there would be a public outcry to spend the money for a more humane method of euthanasia.»

Under HB 27 a veterinarian, certified euthanasia technician or a probationary CET working under the supervision of a veterinarian, has complete discretion to choose the method of killing: CO gas chambers or lethal injection.  A log must be kept of the method of killing used for each animal, the identity of the person performing the killing and the reason for the particular method. Â

In aggravated circumstances — such as where the dog seriously injures or kills a person, or a qualified behaviorist who has personally evaluated the dog determines that the dog poses a substantial risk of such behavior — euthanasia may be justified.

Although the definitions vary, to clarify what euthanasia and assisted suicide mean, the Merriam - Webster dictionary defines euthanasia as the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (e.g., persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy.