Liverpool Care Pathway slammed in BMJ
The highly controversial Liverpool Care Pathway has been slammed in the British Medical Journal. In a scathing letter, psychiatrist Eugene Breen has criticised the protocol...
A beautiful way to die. In Belgium, that is.
Euthanasia is being promoted in Belgium as a “beautiful” and positive way to die. Euthanasia is being promoted in Belgium as a “beautiful” and positive...
Why wait until death for organ donation, asks Canadian bioethicist
More erosion of the dead donor rule in the latest issue of the Cambridge Journal of Healthcare Ethics. More erosion of the dead donor rule...
Questions hover over “brain death”, says US bioethicist
Is "brain death" really death? The leading opponent of defining death as the death of the brain is D. Alan Shewmon, a professor of paediatric...
Retired Scottish doctor admits assisting in suicides
A retired Scottish doctor has admitted in a newspaper interview that he supplied three patients with lethal medication so that they could end their lives....
Euthanasia prevention akin to torture, Canadian court hears
In the most controversial Canadian bioethics case in years, a British Columbia court has heard that outlawing euthanasia is akin to torture. A significant change...
Suicide deaths rise in Australia after promotion of illegal drugs
More and more Australians are importing the illegal lethal drug pentobarbitone from overseas as a way of committing suicide. More and more Australians are importing...
Should 12-year-old Belgian kids be able to choose euthanasia?
Euthanasia is legal in Belgium under certain conditions, but not for minors, boys and girls under 18. Now the upper house of the Belgian parliament...
BBC sceptic looks at assisted dying
BBC World Service features a very interesting documentary on assisted dying. Disabled actress and broadcaster Liz Carr visits all the six jurisdictions where it is...
Some Quebec doctors resisting drive for euthanasia
Some Quebec doctors are beginning to fight back against a drive for legalised euthanasia. Some Quebec doctors are beginning to fight back against a drive...
Belgian euthanasia: not such a big deal?
Trivialization is well and truly under way when Belgian euthanasia becomes the subject of TV chat shows. A stinging report by a Belgian bioethics think...
French doctors endorse euthanasia
France’s peak medical body, the Conseil national de l'ordre des médecins (CNOM, the national council of the college of physicians) has endorsed euthanasia. This marks...