Euthanasia takes a backward step in Portugal and Colombia
The president of Portugal has refused to sign a bill legalising euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa criticised its wording as imprecise. This...
Belgian euthanasia doctors intimidated by lawyers
Euthanasia has become normalised in Belgium. Accounting to official figures, about 1 death in 50 is due to euthanasia – and a large proportion are...
Euthanasia updates: Bailiwick of Jersey and New South Wales
Lawmakers on the island of Jersey, the small UK dependency in the English Channel (population 110,000), have approved the principle of legalising assisted dying. A...
‘The Economist’ backs assisted dying
As a reflection of the influence of classical liberal thought upon current affairs, the British “newspaper”, The Economist, has no peer. Its tightly written leaders...
NSW Parliament debates ‘assisted dying’
On Friday the Parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales began its debate on the controversial bill to legalise “voluntary assisted dying”. The...
Anscombe Bioethics Centre releases position papers on euthanasia
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre in the UK has commissioned several briefing papers on to clarify the issues at stake in debates around the world...
‘Quick and painless death’: easier said than done
‘Quick and painless’ is a great slogan but it’s hard to achieve.
Protracted ‘assisted dying’ in Colorado
Assisted dying was not the kind of farewell that she had imagined for her husband. She felt “numb, in shock, stressed.”
Can ‘assisted dying’ ever be fully autonomous?
Respect for autonomy, even more than fear of pain, is the fundamental reason why the argument for “assisted dying” has been so powerful. But will...
Euthanasia fundamentalists still at work in the Netherlands selling ‘Mittel X’
Dutch police are investigating the deaths of dozens of people who purchased a suicide powder called Mittel X [“Substance X”] from members of a fundamentalist...
Next cab off the ‘assisted dying’ rank: Austria
The Federal Chancery has sent a draft law to the nation’s parliament. It appears that the government has no other option, constitutionally speaking.
Canadian funeral homes break into the MAiD market
Canadian funeral homes have discovered a way to make money out of medical assistance in dying. During the Covid-19 pandemic people needed a clean, quiet, comfortable venue where they would die.