Executive Director,
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
2025 was a year of great success and great challenges for those who oppose killing by euthanasia and assisted suicide.
The first success is the growth of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC). The EPCBlog has grown significantly in the past year with 3.66 million readers in 2025, not counting the people who read articles that were republished. We regularly notice data or comments that were borrowed directly from our blog article.
We allow anyone to republish our blog articles, as long as they attribute or link to the original article.
Our blog articles always contain links to the original articles enabling people who are doing research to find the original articles.
We are pleased with the successful Sloveniana referendum. The Slovenian parliament passed a bill to legalize euthanasia in July 2025. The referendum was a great success with 53.5% rejecting the Slovenian euthanasia law.
We are very pleased with our January 1, 2026 release of the film: Life Worth Living. (Link to the Life Worth Living information).
The film project grew out of our work with the successful Slovenian referendum campaign, as well as our work with partners in Victoria, Australia who were trying to prevent the expansion of their assisted suicide law, and also our promotion of Bill C-218, the bill that is sponsored by Tamara Jansen MP which, if passed, would prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone in Canada.
While working on the film project, we shared footage of interviews concerning Canada’s experience with euthanasia, that was used in the Slovenian referendum campaign.
We are very pleased with our January 1, 2026 release of the film: Life Worth Living. (Link to the Life Worth Living information).
The film project grew out of our work with the successful Slovenian referendum campaign, as well as our work with partners in Victoria, Australia who were trying to prevent the expansion of their assisted suicide law, and also our promotion of Bill C-218, the bill that is sponsored by Tamara Jansen MP which, if passed, would prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone in Canada.
While working on the film project, we shared footage of interviews concerning Canada’s experience with euthanasia, that was used in the Slovenian referendum campaign.
There were more successes, but there were also significant losses.
Delaware, Illinois and New York all legalized assisted suicide in 2025. This is a significant loss considering that the last state to legalize assisted suicide was New Mexico 5 years earlier. We are concerned that 2026 will lead to more states legalizing assisted suicide.
We are also concerned about the assisted suicide debate in Britain. The assisted suicide bills at Westminster (England and Wales) and at Holyrood (Scotland) will likely both be voted on in 2026.
Canada's experience with euthanasia has changed the debate in many countries. This is good since we don't want them to follow Canada's lead. Nonetheless, many of these jurisdiction believe that they are not Canada, or the Netherlands or Belgium, therefore it will be different for them. Canadians were told the same in 2015/2016.
They are missing the fact that people are people and killing is killing.
We opposed to euthanasia because it is literally about killing people. Assisted killing is a bad idea not just because it cannot be contained or it will negatively affect people at a vulnerable time of their life, even though those statements are true.
We oppose assisting a suicide because it is also about killing someone. Assisting a suicide undermines the need that the person is experiencing, where the response should be proper care and suicide prevention.
Based on the nature of the human person, it is never a good idea to give someone, the right in law, to kill people, as euthanasia and assisted suicide laws actually do. Historically, it has never worked out when a society allows one group of people (medical professionals) to kill people, even when it is requested.
No comments:
Post a Comment