Scotland to vote on legalising assisted dying for the third time
Scotland could become the first jurisdiction in the United Kingdom to legalise assisted dying. Scottish Liberal Democrat Liam McArthur tabled an assisted dying for terminally ill...
Assisted suicide numbers in Oregon continue to rise
In 1997, Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalise physician-assisted suicide for people with a terminally illness. Since then numbers have increased year-on-year and this shows no...
How not to report an assisted suicide
Thursday in Sydney, where BioEdge is located, is a few hours ahead of Thursday in Switzerland, the day when 72-year-old Hal Malchow plans to die...
Canadian man charged over internet suicides
If anyone doubts the power of the internet to change lives, they should speak with Ontario Police. They recently charged a Toronto man, Kenneth Law,...
Court rules ‘voluntary assisted dying’ is suicide
Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of “voluntary assisted dying” insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. For instance, Go Gentle...
Isle of Man moves closer to legalising ‘assisted dying’
The Isle of Man has taken a step closer to legalizing assisted dying. Seventeen members of the 24-member House of Keys, the island's parliament, approved...
Accidents do happen in legal assisted suicide
What happens if you attend your buddy’s assisted suicide end-of-life celebration and have an exploratory sip of his lethal prescription? Well, you might die. A...
Significant gaps in information about Oregon’s benchmark assisted dying law
Around the world, lobbyists for legalising physician-assisted suicide (PAS) use Oregon as an example of safe, successful, and carefully drafted legislation. Every year the state...
Why not voluntary lawyer-assisted dying?
At an earlier stage in the debate over assisted dying, a critic wrote that it was incompatible with a physician’s Hippocratic Oath. If the public...
South Australian prisoner will die through ‘voluntary assisted dying’
“Voluntary Assisted Dying” commenced in South Australia on January 31. The latest available figures show that 39 people have already taken advantage of the new...
Nitschke gets US tax-deductible status for his suicide machines
Americans can now get a tax-deduction for promoting assisted suicide. The world’s best-known assisted suicide activist, Australia’s Philip Nitschke, has drawn the curtains on a...
Canadian man supplied 1200 suicide kits online
Canada, the country with the most victims of euthanasia, is also the home of a man who may have enabled hundreds of people around the...