Minnesota’s internet suicide nurse found guilty
A 48-year-old Minnesota nurse has been found guilty of inciting two people to suicide over the internet. William Melchert-Dinkel used internet chat rooms to seek...
Ohio executes prisoner with euthanasia drug
Ohio executed a prisoner this week with a controversial drug normally used for euthanasing animals, pentobarbital. Ohio executed a prisoner this week with a controversial...
Helium suicides rising after promotion on internet
Helium inhalation promoted by internet suicide and euthanasia sites is becoming a significant factor in Australian suicides. Helium inhalation promoted by internet suicide and euthanasia...
Brain-damaged immigrant’s feeding tube removed
A court-appointed guardian has removed feeding tubes from a 58-year-old comatose grandmother in a Maryland nursing home who has no health insurance and whose children...
Dutch activists planning euthanasia clinic
Doctors disapprove The Dutch voluntary euthanasia society (NVVE) is planning to open an eight-person clinic in 2012 where people can go to end their lives....
Belgian doctors harvest high quality organs from euthanased patients
Participation is voluntary A group of Belgian doctors are harvesting “high quality” organs from patients who have been euthanased. This is not a secret project,...
A tragic call for euthanasia
Sydney "hippies" and their disabled daughter Is the tragic drowning of a disabled toddler in Sydney an indirect consequence of publicity given to the merits...
Only half of Belgium’s euthanasia cases are reported
However, Belgian academics wondered whether there might be abuses in unreported cases. There were. The law clearly stipulates that euthanasia is administering, supplying, or prescribing...
Black and white in the healthcare rationing debate
Thanks to Jacob M. Appel The bitter debate over President Obama’s healthcare plan can be baffling. With a finite supply of money, surely the cost...
Belgian surgeons harvest organs after euthanasia
Not just a bright idea How often is this going on in Belgium and the Netherlands? Bioethics blogger Wesley Smith drew our attention to a...
Solve the organ shortage with euthanasia, says leading bioethicist
Oxford don Julian Savulescu thinks that doctors should kill consenting brain-dead patients for their organs. It was only a matter of time before someone would...
Parents fight to keep brain-damaged Canadian baby on ventilator
Doctors seek to remove Isaiah May A Canadian baby on a life-supporting ventilator has become the centre of the latest controversy over futile medical treatment....