Gynaecologist prescribes lethal drink for Dignitas clients
The decline of Christianity is one reason for the attraction of assisted suicide The gynaecologist who writes the lethal prescription for clients of Dignitas has...
Middle-aged suicides on rise in US
Researchers puzzledMiddle-aged suicides are rising in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy....
Young British rugby player chooses assisted suicide in Zurich
UK controversy could lead to test case British police are investigating how a young rugby player died with the help of Dignitas, the Swiss assisted...
Some Oregon assisted-suicide patients have undiagnosed depression
Study in BMJ One in four terminally ill patients in Oregon who opt for physician-assisted suicide have clinical depression and the Death with Dignity Act...
Swiss suicide group wants access to nursing homes
Exit organising referendum in Vaud canton The Swiss group Exit is trying to force state-subsidised nursing homes in Geneva to allow their residents to decide...
Do the demented have a duty to die?
Architect of IVF laws speaks out. One of Britain’s leading moral philosophers and the architect of its fertility laws has suggested that people with dementia...
Spain moves toward legalised assisted suicide
Stem cell researcher become health minister favours changeLegalised assisted suicide is on the horizon, says Spain’s health minister, Dr Bernat Soria. In an interview with...
Vatican newspaper questions brain-death criteria
Unlikely to signal change in Catholic teaching In 1968, a landmark report from Harvard Medical School set down criteria for determining when a person was...
UK euthanasia lobby fails in trademark bid
"Dishonest", say opponents Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will really help me. That was the thought which inspired the British Voluntary...
Miracle newborn revives after declaration of death
Five hours in hospital fridge Just after an American team of transplant surgeons started a debate over heart transplants from terminally-ill, but not brain-dead, newborns,...
Depressed woman takes Dr Nitschke’s advice
Depressed mother of four kills herself in Mexico with Nembutal A suicidal woman in the state of Western Australia with four young children found what...
We’ll pay you to die, but not to live
Oregon offers cancer victims a choice Is this a case of bureaucratic madness or bureaucratic thrift? The state health insurer in the American state of...