Millions lack access to palliative care, says Human Rights Watch
Tens of millions of people worldwide are denied access to inexpensive medications for severe pain, Human Rights Watch said in a report released earlier this...
Suicide hero Kevorkian dies at 83
At the age of 83, after helping at least 130 people to commit suicide, medical pathologist Jack Kevorkian, has passed away in a hospital bed...
Abuse in UK hospitals sparks outrage
Britons must be wondering whether their country is really prepared to care for its elderly as its population begins to age rapidly. Two scandals have...
The American doctor who has helped nearly 300 to commit suicide
Newsweek has called 83-year-old Lawrence Egbert “the new Doctor Death”. By his own admission, he has ushered nearly 300 Americans through the portals of death...
“Brain dead” woman awakes in Australian hospital
Tani and Gloria Cruz“Hopeless” and “brain dead” are expressions which have to be used with great caution, it seems, judging from the experience of an...
Is posting a joint suicide video on YouTube ethical?
“On the evening of 28 April 2011, long-time Exit members Don & Iris Flounders finally drank the Nembutal they had obtained 3 years earlier...
Living wills for people who will to live
BioEdge recently reported that nervous Nellies in the Netherlands were carrying “please DO resuscitate me” cards instead of “do not resuscitate” cards. This week we...
The ride of your life, er, death
“And now for something completely different” is a Monty Python catch phrase which seems both true and inadequate for the brainchild of a Lithuanian...
“Baby Joseph” returns to Canada, breathing on his own
Joseph Maraachli, the boy whose family refused to accept a Canadian hospital’s recommendation to remove his breathing tube and allow him to die, is now...
Food and water are medical treatments, say Canadian ethicists
It is ethical to withhold and withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) from children, says the Canadian Paediatric Society. In a bioethics position statement, it...
Canadian baby at heart of ethics debate goes to US for surgery
Canadian doctors wouldn’t treat him A tear-jerking futile care case has been fought in Canada with the help of American firepower. One-year-old Joseph Maraachli, the child...
Rwandan woman being fed again
A Rwandan woman in a permanent vegetative state whose feeding tube had been removed against her family’s wishes is being fed again. A Rwandan woman...