House of Lords asks government for clarity on Swiss suicide trips
Debbie Purdy scores a small victory in long legal battle A woman wheelchair-bound by severe multiple sclerosis has succeeded in forcing the UK government to...
British conductor and wife die at Dignitas
Brings tally to 117 Two more British deaths at the Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas. This time, however the couple was well known -- conductor Sir...
Quebec doctors to back euthanasia
Confusion over exact proposals Euthanasia is back on the agenda again in Canada this autumn, with a private member’s bill before the Québec parliament and...
Assisted suicide fails in UK
Bid collapses in House of Lords A bid to change the law in the UK on assisted suicide has failed in the House of Lords...
UK Parliament to debate assisted suicide again
BMA votes against itThe annual conference of the British Medical Association has narrowly voted against legal protection for relatives who travel abroad to help people...
Many British “clients” at Dignitas not terminally ill
Swiss group "cavalier", says doctor Many of the Britons who seek suicide in Switzerland with the help of the Dignitas organisation were not terminally ill...
Academic proposes Swiss suicide as model for US
Offers potential for demedicalising death While British doctors may be aghast at the suicide tourism in Switzerland, an American bioethicist has just published a learned...
Dignitas on the move again
Residents object The Swiss suicide group Dignitas is homeless again. The organisation will be forced to leave its current location in a Zurich suburb when...
Kevorkian biopic in the studio
Arthur Caplan unhappy because it could set back cause of assisted suicideThe career of flamboyant assisted suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian is to become a HBO...
Collision with reality
An academic supporter of euthanasia thinks againThis is what Professor Margaret Battin, of the University of Utah, wrote in her book on euthanasia: "We firmly...
Child welfare 1: why do parents need to approve of child euthanasia?
New York bioethicist says that experts should decide Why do doctors need the consent of parents before euthanasing a child? This is the startling question...
Govt stats show euthanasia rise in Netherlands
Searching for explanations The number of official requests for euthanasia in the Netherlands increased by 10% in 2008 over the previous year, to 2,331, according...